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Experimental study and local approach of cleavage crack arrest in a bainitic ...
EDF wants to complete the assessment of reactor pressure vessels usually based on crack initiation concept by crack arrest concept. The work aims at improving the... -
Propagation and arrest of cleavage cracks in a nuclear pressure vessel steel
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Criterion of cleavage crack propagation and arrest in a nuclear PWR vessel steel
The purpose of this PhD thesis is to understand physical mechanisms of cleavage crack propagation and arrest in the 16MND5 PWR vessel steel and to propose a robust... -
New experimental and numerical techniques to study the arrest and the restart...
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