High-temperature creep rupture of low alloy ferritic steel butt-welded pipes subjected to combined internal pressure and end loadings

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1836, 2005, Pages 2629-2661

  Vakili Tahami, F ^a   Hayhurst, D R ^a   Wong, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CDM; Creep rupture; High temperature; Welds

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744498220     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1583     Document Type: Review

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