Failure Evaluation of Cupronickel Alloy Used in the Condenser of the Desalination Unit

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Javad Hashemi ¹ , Amin Rabiezadeh ²

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Department of Materials Engineering, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2022-01-09 Accepted : 2022-05-05 Published : 2022-02-01

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