Failure analysis of the effects of porosity in thermally oxidised nuclear graphite using finite element modelling
Finite element models of thermally oxidised nuclear graphite were generated using three-dimensional high-resolution tomography images. Bulk tensile strength was then evaluated using a smeared-crack model, which shows an exponential decay in the bulk strength with increasing pore volume. The finite e...
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2008
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