Simulation of stress corrosion cracking in in-core monitor housing of nuclear power plant

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Shintaku, Yuichi ^a   Iwamatsu, Fuminori ^b   Suga, Kazuhiro ^a   Wada, Yoshitaka ^c   Kikuchi, Masanori ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HOUSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESSES; SURFACE DEFECTS; WELDING; WELDS;

CIRCUMFERENTIAL SURFACE CRACKS; CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; CRACK GROWTH PROCESS; CRACK GROWTH SIMULATION; INFLUENCE FUNCTION METHODS; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL; RESIDUAL STRESS FIELDS; WELD HEAT-AFFECTED ZONE;

STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

EID: 84924308649     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4028735     Document Type: Article

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