Preliminary Analysis of the Cladding Mechanical Behavior of a Nuclear Superheat Boiling Water Reactor

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Majid Bahonar ¹ , Gholamreza Jahanfarnia ² , Morteza Gharib ³

1 - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-01-30 Accepted : 2018-05-07 Published : 2018-06-01

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