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Fracture toughness of zirconium hydride and its influence on the crack resistance of zirconium alloys

L.A. Simpson, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1979 - 
- Vol. 87, Iss: 2, pp 303-316
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In this article, the fracture toughness of hydride-containing zirconium alloys was investigated over the temperature range of 20 to 300°C on both hydrided Zr-2.5%Nb and hydrides of Zr 2.5%.
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This article is published in Journal of Nuclear Materials.The article was published on 1979-12-01. It has received 119 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Zirconium hydride & Zirconium alloy.

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Hydrides and delayed hydrogen cracking in zirconium and its alloys

TL;DR: A critical review of published data on hydrogen, hydrides, and delayed hydrogen cracking (or hydrogen-induced delayed cracking, HIDC) in zirconium and its alloys is presented in this paper.
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Hydride embrittlement in ZIRCALOY-4 plate: Part I. Influence of microstructure on the hydride embrittlement in ZIRCALOY-4 at 20 °C and 350 °C

TL;DR: In this article, a full-coverage model is proposed to estimate the critical hydrogen content that makes ZIRCALOY-4 totally brittle, and the effect of microstructure on hydride embrittlement in different metallurgical states is explained according to the modeling.
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A review on hydride precipitation in zirconium alloys

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a concise summary of experimental and computational studies performed on hydride precipitation in zirconium alloys since the 1960's, with specific consideration given to the phase field model, which has become a popular and powerful computational tool for modeling microstructure evolution.
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Ab initio study on plane defects in zirconium–hydrogen solid solution and zirconium hydride

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the fracture properties of the hydride and showed that it has an extremely brittle nature due to the synergistic effect of a small γ S, implying easy generation of a fracture surface, and large γ US, implying a difficulty in dislocation motion.
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The effects of misfit and external stresses on terminal solid solubility in hydride-forming metals

TL;DR: In this article, general expressions for the solubility of hydrogen in equilibrium with internally and externally stressed hydrides were derived for the TSS of zirconium and its alloys to estimate the amount of hydride-matrix misfit strain energy lost to plastic deformation.
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Advances in chemistry series

TL;DR: A key to pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry literature and training of literature chemists are discussed in the Advances series as mentioned in this paper, with the focus on the training of chemistry chemists, which is a subject of great interest to the literature chemist.
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Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics

Dietrich Munz
TL;DR: In this article, a linear-elastic fracture mechanics can be applied to describe the failure behavior of small flaws in ceramic materials, which is caused by the extension of small faults.
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Mechanisms of hydrogen induced delayed cracking in hydride forming materials

TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative model for hydrogen cracking in Zr-2.5 pct Nb is presented and compared with available experimental data, showing that the process occurs in an intermittent fashion; hydride clusters accumulate at the crack tip followed by unstable crack advance and subsequent crack arrest in repeated cycles.
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The Effects of Stress, Temperature and Hydrogen Content on Hydride-Induced Crack Growth in Zr-2.5 Pct Nb

TL;DR: In this article, the velocity of hydride induced subcritical crack growth in Zr-2.5 pct Nb has been determined using the potential drop method for measuring crack extension.
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Some observations on the deformation characteristics of bulk polycrystalline zirconium hydrides

TL;DR: In this paper, the compressive deformation of polycrystalline ǫ-zirconium hydride has been investigated within the temperature range 22 to ∼ 400° C and over the composition range ZrH1.71 to Zrh1.92.
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