Fracture toughness, thermo-electric power, and atom probe investigations of JRQ steel in I, IA, IAR, and IARA conditions

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1475 STP, Issue , 2006, Pages 195-211

  Nanstad, R K ^a   Niffenegger, M ^b   Kalkhof, R D ^b   Miller, M K ^a   Sokolov, M A ^a   Tipping, Ph ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Charpy impact; Fracture toughness; Irradiation; Precracked Charpy; Reactor pressure vessel; Reirradiation; Tensile strength; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMS; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; BOILERS; CAISSONS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; FRACTURE; HARDNESS TESTING; IMPACT STRENGTH; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; METAL ANALYSIS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; PHOSPHORUS; PRESSURE VESSELS; PROBES; RADIATION EFFECTS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STEEL; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHARPY IMPACT; PRECRACKED CHARPY; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL; REIRRADIATION; THERMAL ANNEALING;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 61849145979     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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