Exploitation of thermal gradients for investigation of irradiation temperature effects with charged particles.

ABSTRACT: The effects of radiation damage on materials are strongly dependant on temperature, making it arguably the most significant parameter of concern in nuclear engineering. Owing to the challenges and expense of irradiating and testing materials, material property data is often limited to few irradiation conditions and material variants. A new technique has been developed which enables the investigation of radiation damage of samples subject to a thermal gradient, whereby a wealth of data over a range of irradiation temperatures is produced from a single irradiation experiment. The results produced are practically inaccessible by use of multiple conventional isothermal irradiations. We present a precipitation-hardened copper alloy (CuCrZr) case-study irradiated with a linear temperature gradie

SUBMITTER: Hardie CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6753122 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature