Uranium polycrystal aggregates accumulate large plastic deformation during thermal cycling
in a process known as thermal ratcheting. This process is induced by highly anisotropic …

Ultrasonic surface rolling process (USRP) is a novel surface modification technique based
on surface severe plastic deformation (SSPD). The present study aims to investigate the …

Calibrating and verifying crystal plasticity material models is a significant challenge,
particularly for materials with a number of potential slip and twin systems. Here we use …

Abstract Uranium-10 wt.% zirconium (U-10 wt.% Zr) is a primary candidate for fast reactor
nuclear fuels. However, there is a lack of data characterizing the crystallographic phases …

Large-scale non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations were employed to
investigate the dynamic deformations of alpha-uranium (α-U) single crystals subjected to …

The deformation behaviour of coarse-grained α-uranium is studied using crystal plasticity
finite element simulations. The constitutive model includes 8 slip and 2 twin systems, based …

This work describes the microstructural evolution of textured alpha uranium (α-U) specimens
under different reactor transients achieving very low burn-up. The understanding of the …

The effect of microstructure on the internal hydriding behavior of both cast (1 mm grain size)
and rolled (25 μm grain size) uranium containing hydrogen concentrations between 0 and …

Using a compact hand-held laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument,
studies were conducted on specimens of uranium charged with controlled hydrogen …

In this work, we report an experimental and theoretical study of the (130) twin system in the
U-14.0 at.% Nb alloy using aberration-corrected TEM in combination with first-principles …