The effect of stress levels on the coefficient of thermal expansion of a fine-grained isotropic nuclear graphite

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 484-489

  Wang, Hongtao ^a   Zhou, Xiangwen ^a   Sun, Libin ^a   Dong, Jianling ^a   Yu, Suyuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAGES; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE; HIGH TEMPERATURE REACTORS; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; THERMAL SPRAYING; THERMAL STRESS; UNLOADING;

A THERMALS; APPLIED LOADS; COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSIONS; COMPRESSIVE LOADS; CORE STRUCTURES; CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS; GRAPHITE COMPONENTS; GRAPHITE MATERIALS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED REACTORS; LIFE PREDICTIONS; LOADING DIRECTIONS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS; NUCLEAR GRAPHITES; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; RADIAL DIRECTIONS; RESIDUAL STRAINS; STRAIN GAUGES; STRESS LEVELS; TENSILE TESTING MACHINES; THERMAL EXPANSION BEHAVIORS; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 59849088921     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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