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Zirconium alloy
About: Zirconium alloy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6548 publications have been published within this topic receiving 78954 citations. The topic is also known as: zircaloy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a martensitic mechanism is proposed for the formation of twinned hydride and twinned and untwinned γ-hydrides, and its implications for the precipitation behaviour of hydrides in the can of a reactor fuel element are outlined.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the physical appearance of the room temperature hydride phase in zirconium alloys is described, with particular reference to the orientation of the hydrate platelets relative to specified reference directions.
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TL;DR: In this article, the first generation of chromium-based coatings exhibited the most promising behavior: good compromise between oxidation resistance and adhesion to the metallic substrate, good fretting resistance and improved resistance to oxidation in steam at high temperature.
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