Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors
beyond ITER, structural and plasma-facing materials will be exposed to unprecedented …

Neutron irradiation embrittlement could limit the service life of some of the reactor-pressure
vessels in existing commercial nuclear-power plants. Improved understanding the of the …

Recent experiments on in situ high-energy self-ion irradiation of tungsten (W) show the
occurrence of unusual cascade damage effects resulting from single-ion impacts, shedding …

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 …

According to the production bias model, glissile defect clusters and small dislocation loops
play an important role in the microstructural evolution during irradiation under cascade …

MD Molecular dynamics MS Molecular statics NF Nanofeatures NFA Nanostructured ferritic
alloys ODE Ordinary differential equation OEMS(Positron) orbital electron momentum …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to investigate the formation of atomic
displacement cascades in iron with energies up to 50 keV (corresponding to a primary knock …

Atomic-scale computer simulation has been used to study the thermally activated atomic
transport of self-interstitial atoms (SIAs) in the form of planar clusters in pure Cu and f-Fe …

Bcc and fcc metals exhibit significant differences in behavior when exposed to neutron or
heavy ion irradiation. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations reveal that …