The initiation of delayed hydride cracking at a notch in coarse grained, random textured zircaloy weld metal
Zirconium alloys used in water-cooled nuclear reactors are susceptible to a cracking process, known as Delayed Hydride Cracking or DHC, which involves hydrogen diffusion to a stress concentrator, precipitation, growth and fracture of zirconium hydrides. Prompted mainly by CANDU nuclear reactor incid...
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University of Manchester
2002
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637516 |