Current understanding of radiation-induced degradation in light water reactor structural materials

K Fukuya - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Current phenomenological knowledge and understanding of mechanisms are reviewed for
radiation embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel low alloy steels and irradiation assisted …

Fusion materials science: Overview of challenges and recent progress

SJ Zinkle - Physics of Plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A brief review is given of fundamental materials science concepts important for development
of structural materials for fusion energy systems. Particular attention is placed on …

On the stress dependence of partial dislocation separation and deformation microstructure in austenitic stainless steels

TS Byun - Acta Materialia, 2003 - Elsevier
In the austenitic stainless steels the separation of Shockley partial dislocations is known to
play an important role in the plastic deformation and produces a variety of deformation …

Temperature dependence of strain hardening and plastic instability behaviors in austenitic stainless steels

TS Byun, N Hashimoto, K Farrell - Acta Materialia, 2004 - Elsevier
The temperature dependencies of true strain-hardening and plastic-instability properties are
investigated for austenitic stainless steels; including annealed 304, 316, 316LN, and 20 …

Observation and analysis of defect cluster production and interactions with dislocations

SJ Zinkle, Y Matsukawa - Journal of nuclear materials, 2004 - Elsevier
The current understanding of defect production fundamentals in neutron-irradiated face
centered cubic (FCC) and body centered cubic (BCC) metals is briefly reviewed, based …

STEM characterization of dislocation loops in irradiated FCC alloys

P ** strain rate dependence of dislocation-defect interactions by atomistic simulations
Y Fan, YN Osetskiy, S Yip, B Yildiz - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013 - pnas.org
Probing the mechanisms of defect–defect interactions at strain rates lower than 106 s− 1 is
an unresolved challenge to date to molecular dynamics (MD) techniques. Here we propose …

Magnetic measurements of martensitic transformation in austenitic stainless steel after room temperature rolling

K Mumtaz, S Takahashi, J Echigoya, Y Kamada… - Journal of Materials …, 2004 - Springer
In order to investigate the detection of martensite phase in deformed austenitic stainless
steel, magnetic properties were examined by means of super conducting quantum interface …

Plastic deformation in 316LN stainless steel–characterization of deformation microstructures

TS Byun, EH Lee, JD Hunn - Journal of nuclear materials, 2003 - Elsevier
The effects of irradiation, test temperature, and strain on the deformation microstructures of a
316LN stainless steel have been investigated using a disk-bend method and transmission …

Prospects for accelerated development of high performance structural materials

SJ Zinkle, NM Ghoniem - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2011 - Elsevier
We present an overview of key aspects for development of steels for fission and fusion
energy applications, by linking material fabrication to thermo-mechanical properties through …