Critical analysis of "tight cracks"

Corrosion Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-103

  Staehle, Roger W ^a  

^a Staehle Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; IMPURITIES; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; CRACK TIP OPENING DISPLACEMENT; DISLOCATION ARRAYS; ELECTRON TRANSMISSION; GEOMETRIC EFFECTS; IN-SITU OXIDATION; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES;

CRACK TIPS;

EID: 77951716243     PISSN: 03346005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CORRREV.2010.28.1-2.1     Document Type: Article

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