Yield and Toughness Transition Predictions for Irradiated Steels Based on Dislocation Mechanics

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn STP 1405, Issue , 2001, Pages 97-108

  Wagenhofer, Matthew ^a   Gunawardane, Heshan P ^a   Natishan, MarjorieAnn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Phoenix Engineering Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ferritic steels; fracture toughness transition; irradiation effects; Master Curve; Zerilli Armstrong constitutive model

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DUCTILE FRACTURE; FERRITE; IRRADIATION; MICROSTRUCTURE;

CURVE SHAPE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS TRANSITION; IRRADIATED STEELS; IRRADIATION EFFECT; LATTICE STRUCTURES; MASTER-CURVE; TRANSITION BEHAVIOR; TRANSITION PREDICTION; ZERILLI-ARMSTRONG; ZERILLI-ARMSTRONG CONSTITUTIVE MODEL;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 7744228906     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/STP10528S     Document Type: Conference Paper

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