Conclusions
A method has been developed to determine the growth rate of a crack under conditions of iodine corrosion cracking of Zr-1%Nb claddings under stress. The dependence of the growth rate a crack on the stress-intensity factor in Zr-1%Nb claddings was determined and the threshold stress-intensity factor, equal to 4.8 MPa·m1/2, was determined.
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Main Science Center of the Russian Federation — A. A. Bochvar All-Russia Scientific-Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Engineering. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 87–91, February, 1996.
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Bibilashvili, Y.K., Dolgov, Y.N., Nesterov, B.I. et al. Investigation of the growth rate of cracks in shells made of the alloy Zr-1%Nb under conditions of iodine corrosion cracking under stress. At Energy 80, 90–94 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02414629
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