The effect of transients on the crack growth behavior of low alloy steels for pressure boundary components under light water reactor operating conditions

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems-Water Reactors

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 471-483

  Roth, Armin ^a   Devrient, Bastian ^a   Gómez Bricefio, Dolores ^b   Lapeña, Jesús ^b   Ernestová, Miroslava ^c   Žamboch, Miroslav ^c   Ehrnstén, Ulla ^d   Föhl, Jürgen ^e   Weißenberg, Thomas ^e   Seifert, Hans Peter ^f   Ritter, Stefan ^f  

^a FRAMATOME ANP GMBH   (Germany)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c NUCLEAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmentally assisted cracking; Low alloy steel; LWR; RPV; Transients

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; CORROSION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; STEEL; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS; WELDING;

ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING; LOW ALLOY STEEL; LWR; PRESSURE BOUNDARY COMPONENT;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 33745202370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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