Microscopic structure of a heavily irradiated material

PM Derlet, SL Dudarev - Physical Review Materials, 2020 - APS
It has been long hypothesized that the structure of a material bombarded by energetic
particles might approach a certain asymptotic steady state in the limit of high exposure to …

Microstructure of a heavily irradiated metal exposed to a spectrum of atomic recoils

M Boleininger, DR Mason, AE Sand, SL Dudarev - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
At temperatures below the onset of vacancy migration, metals exposed to energetic ions
develop dynamically fluctuating steady-state microstructures. Statistical properties of these …

Surface effects and statistical laws of defects in primary radiation damage: Tungsten vs. iron

AE Sand, MJ Aliaga, MJ Caturla… - Europhysics Letters, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have investigated the effect of surfaces on the statistics of primary radiation damage,
comparing defect production in the bcc metals iron (Fe) and tungsten (W). Through …

The nature of high-energy radiation damage in iron

E Zarkadoula, SL Daraszewicz, DM Duffy… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding and predicting a material's performance in response to high-energy radiation
damage, as well as designing future materials to be used in intense radiation environments …

Mechanical property degradation in irradiated materials: A multiscale modeling approach

BD Wirth, MJ Caturla, TD De La Rubia… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2001 - Elsevier
High-energy particle irradiation of low stacking fault energy, face centered cubic (fcc) metals
produces significant degradation of mechanical properties, as evidenced in tensile tests …

Primary radiation damage formation

RE Stoller - Comprehensive nuclear materials, 2012 - ornl.gov
The physical processes that give rise to changes in the microstructure, and the physical and
mechanical properties of materials exposed to energetic particles are initiated by essentially …

Cascade fragmentation: deviation from power law in primary radiation damage

AE Sand, DR Mason, A De Backer, X Yi… - Materials Research …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The sizes of defect clusters, produced in materials by energetic ion or neutron impacts, are
critically important input for models describing microstructural evolution of irradiated …

Theory and experimental background on dimensional changes in irradiated alloys

LK Mansur - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 1994 - Elsevier
When a material is irradiated with energetic neutrons or charged particles, a complex
sequence of reactions takes place. Structure, composition, and properties are altered over …

Structure and metastability of mesoscopic vacancy and interstitial loop defects in iron and tungsten

MR Gilbert, SL Dudarev, PM Derlet… - Journal of Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The most recent observations of dynamical time-dependent fluctuating behaviour of
mesoscopic radiation defects in body-centred cubic metals (Arakawa et al 2006 Phys. Rev …

Primary Radiation Damage in Materials. Review of Current Understanding and Proposed New Standard Displacement Damage Model to Incorporate in Cascade …

K Nordlund, AE Sand, F Granberg, SJ Zinkle, R Stoller… - 2015 - inis.iaea.org
Executive summary One of the consequences of the interaction of high energy particles
(photons, neutrons, ions or electrons) with crystalline materials is the formation of lattice …