Radiation Damage Assessment by the Use of Dynamic Toughness Measurements on Pre-Cracked Charpy-V Specimens

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn STP 1405, Issue , 2001, Pages 68-78

  Lucon, Enrico ^a   Chaouadi, Rachid ^a  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

dynamic fracture toughness; impact loading rate; irradiation induced embrittlement; loss of constraint; precracked Charpy V specimens; reference temperature

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CHARPY IMPACT TESTING; CRACKS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RADIATION DAMAGE; STRAIN RATE;

CHARPY-V; DYNAMIC FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; IMPACT LOADING RATE; IMPACT LOADINGS; IRRADIATION-INDUCED EMBRITTLEMENT; LOADING RATE; LOSS OF CONSTRAINT; PRECRACKED; PRECRACKED CHARPY-V SPECIMEN; REFERENCE TEMPERATURE;

IRRADIATION;

EID: 7744238101     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/STP10526S     Document Type: Conference Paper

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