Development of fluorocarbon rubber for backup seals of sodium cooled fast breeder reactor

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5141-5153

  Sinha, N K ^a   Mukhopadhyay, R ^b   Dhupia, D ^b   Das Gupta, S ^b   Raj, Baldev ^a  

^a INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

^b Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute HASETRI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS; COMPRESSION SET; DOSE RATE; FAST BREEDER REACTORS; IONIC INTERACTION; LIFE PREDICTIONS; LITERATURE DATA; LONG TERM AGEING; MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; PROCESSABILITY TESTS; PROTOTYPE FAST BREEDER REACTORS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RUBBER COMPOUNDS; SEALING APPLICATIONS; THERMO-OXIDATIVE STABILITY; WILLIAMS-LANDEL-FERRY EQUATIONS;

FAST REACTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUOROCARBONS; ION EXCHANGE; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; RUBBER; SODIUM;

BREEDER REACTORS;

EID: 79960913293     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.05.037     Document Type: Article

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