Embrittlement and fracture toughness of highly irradiated austenitic steels for vessel internals of WWER type reactors. Part 3. Analysis of crack propagation conditions

Strength of Materials

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-271

  Margolin, B Z ^a   Fomenko, V N ^a   Sorokin, A A ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROMETEY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

austenitic steels; ductile fracture; stable and unstable crack propagation conditions; strain based failure criterion

Indexed keywords

CRACK EXTENSION; FAILURE CRITERIA; NUMERICAL MODELING; PLASTIC ZONE SIZE; QUASI-STATIC LOADING; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL; STABLE AND UNSTABLE CRACK PROPAGATION CONDITIONS;

AUSTENITE; AUSTENITIC STEEL; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; PRESSURE VESSELS;

DUCTILE FRACTURE;

EID: 77955013190     PISSN: 00392316     EISSN: 15739325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11223-010-9214-4     Document Type: Article

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