Review of Phosphorus Segregation and Intergranular Embrittlement in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn STP 1405, Issue , 2001, Pages 151-173

  English, Colin A ^a   Ortner, Susan R ^a   Gage, Gareth ^a   Server, William L ^b   Rosinski, Stan T ^c  

^a RICARDO UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b ATI Consulting   (United States)

^c Welding and Repair Technology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

grain boundaries; HAZ; intergranular embrittlement; phosphorus segregation; thermal anneal heat treatment

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; EMBRITTLEMENT; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HEAT TREATMENT; MANGANESE ALLOYS; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; PRESSURE VESSELS; PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES; THERMAL AGING;

GRAIN-BOUNDARIES; HEAT-AFFECTED ZONES; INTERGRANULAR EMBRITTLEMENT; P SEGREGATION; PHOSPHORUS SEGREGATION; PRESSURISED WATER REACTOR; REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL STEELS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMAL ANNEAL HEAT TREATMENT; THERMAL ANNEALS;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 85131426478     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/STP10531S     Document Type: Conference Paper

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