Recursively coupled thermal and mechanical FEM-analysis of lower plenum creep failure experiments

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-148

  Willschutz H G ^a   Altstadt, E ^a   Sehgal, B R ^b   Weiss, F P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; CREEP; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

CREEP STRAIN; FRACTURE POSITION; FRACTURE TIME; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL (RPV);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

REINDEER PAPILLOMAVIRUS;

EID: 28844495586     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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