Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Chemical-heat removing or burning of metal
Patent
1977-11-18
1980-12-09
Rutledge, L. Dewayne
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Chemical-heat removing or burning of metal
148 115F, 148 32, C21D 100
Patent
active
042382513
ABSTRACT:
Zirconium-base alloy channels and fuel cladding tubes having unique resistance to accelerated pustular corrosion in the boiling water reactor environment are produced by a heat treatment causing segregation of intermetallic particulate precipitate phase in two dimensional arrays preferably located along grain boundaries and subgrain boundaries throughout the alloy body.
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Black Timothy J.
Proebstle Richard A.
Urquhart Andrew W.
Walker James L.
Williams Cedric D.
Davis Jr. James C.
General Electric Company
MaLossi Leo I.
Rutledge L. Dewayne
Skiff Peter K.
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