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Corrosion Cracking of Zirconium Cladding Tubes (A Review). I. Methods of Study and Mechanisms of Fracture

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Methods of study and criteria of evaluation of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of zirconium alloys are generalized as applied to cladding tubes of nuclear reactors. Mechanisms of SCC in zirconium cladding tubes in iodine-bearing media (iodine vapors, solution of iodine in methanol, etc.) are described. Metallographic and fracture features of damage in these media are analyzed. Data on cracking rates and critical stress intensity factors are presented.

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, pp. 31 – 39, February, 2005.

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Nikulin, S.A., Rozhnov, A.B. Corrosion Cracking of Zirconium Cladding Tubes (A Review). I. Methods of Study and Mechanisms of Fracture. Met Sci Heat Treat 47, 71–79 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-005-0034-2

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