Fitness-for-Service Fracture Assessment of Structures Containing Cracks: A Workbook based on the European SINTAP/FITNET Procedure

Fitness-for-Service Fracture Assessment of Structures Containing Cracks: A Workbook based on the European SINTAP/FITNET Procedure

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-295

  Zerbst, Uwe ^a   Schödel, Manfred ^b   Webster, Stephen ^c   Ainsworth, Robert A ^d  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

^b ALSTOM   (France)

^c CORUS RD and T ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH ENERGY GENERATION LTD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/C2011-0-07973-5     Document Type: Book

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