Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Thermal energy transport in oxide nuclear fuel

DH Hurley, A El-Azab, MS Bryan, MWD Cooper… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts
seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In …

Spherical nanoindentation stress–strain curves

S Pathak, SR Kalidindi - Materials science and engineering: R: Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Although indentation experiments have long been used to measure the hardness and
Young's modulus, the utility of this technique in analyzing the complete elastic–plastic …

Emulation of reactor irradiation damage using ion beams

GS Was, Z Jiao, E Getto, K Sun, AM Monterrosa… - Scripta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Progress in understanding radiation damage in structural materials is hampered by the lack
of test reactors, long irradiations and high cost. Here we show that through strict control of …

Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

Challenges to the use of ion irradiation for emulating reactor irradiation

GS Was - Journal of Materials Research, 2015 - cambridge.org
Development of new materials for current and advanced reactor concepts is hampered by
long lead times and high cost of reactor irradiations coupled with the paucity of test reactors …

In situ nanocompression testing of irradiated copper

D Kiener, P Hosemann, SA Maloy, AM Minor - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
Increasing demand for energy and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions has revived
interest in nuclear energy. Designing materials for radiation environments necessitates a …

Radiation damage and irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking of additively manufactured 316L stainless steels

M Song, M Wang, X Lou, RB Rebak, GS Was - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The irradiation-induced microstructure and irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking
(IASCC) behavior of additively manufactured (AM) 316L stainless steels produced by laser …

Source truncation and exhaustion: insights from quantitative in situ TEM tensile testing

D Kiener, AM Minor - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
A unique method for quantitative in situ nanotensile testing in a transmission electron
microscope employing focused ion beam fabricated specimens was developed …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in nanomechanical and in situ testing techniques: Towards extreme conditions

D Kiener, M Wurmshuber, M Alfreider… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation based techniques were significantly enhanced by continuous stiffness
monitoring capabilities. In essence, this allowed to expand from point-wise discrete …