caa a22 4500 477080537 CHVBK 20180405111448.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00732041 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00732041 An integrated approach to evaluating the fracture toughness of irradiated nuclear reactor pressure vessels [Elektronische Daten] [G. Odette, G. Lucas] Current methods of predicting the inservice fracture toughness of nuclear reactor pressure vessels subject to irradiation embrittlement are briefly reviewed, and a new and integrated approach is proposed. This approach is based on the use of a wide variety of information, including the rapidly emerging understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of fracture in the ductile to brittle transition region as well as the microstructurally-mediated processes leading to embrittlement. However, the focus is on advanced, nonintrusive characterization methods for measuring composition, coarse and fine scale microstructure, and mechanical properties using small sample biopsies from operating vessels. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 Irradiation embrittlement nationallicence reactor pressure vessels nationallicence toughness nationallicence Odette G. Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California aut Lucas G. Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California aut Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 15/3-4(1996-12-01), 137-150 0195-9298 15:3-4<137 1996 15 10921 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Odette G. Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lucas G. Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 15/3-4(1996-12-01), 137-150 0195-9298 15:3-4<137 1996 15 10921 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer