The development of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) for monitoring the embrittlement in nuclear reactor pressure vessels

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 210-213, Issue PART 1, 1996, Pages 9-16

  Blaszkiewicz, M ^a  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy Current; Electrical Resistivity; Embrittlement; Hardness; Magnetic Hysteresis; Nuclear Reactors; Pressure Vessels; Steels; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEGRADATION; EMBRITTLEMENT; IRRADIATION; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; PRESSURE VESSELS;

CHARPY TESTS; DISLOCATION DENSITY; INTRINSIC PROPERTIES; IRRADIATION INDUCED DEGRADATION; LIGHT WATER REACTOR PRESSURE VESSELS;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 3843072229     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.210-213.9     Document Type: Review

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