DOE/ER-0313/46 - Volume 46
Semiannual Progress Report
June 30, 2009

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1_VANADIUM ALLOYS

1. 1.1 ADDITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF V-4Cr-4Ti EXPOSED TO FLOWING Li - B. A. Pint (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 1-3.

2_CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS

1. 2.1. THE EFFECTS OF NEUTRON IRRADIATION ON DIMENSIONAL CHANGE IN ADVANCED SILICON CARBIDE COMPOSITES - K. Ozawa, Y. Katoh, L.L. Snead (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), T. Nozawa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), T. Hinoki (Kyoto University), and A. Hasegawa (Tohoku University) , pp. 4-15.

3_FERRITIC/MARTENSITIC STEELS

See also contribution 12.2

1. 3.1. A REVIEW OF RECENT WORK ON FATIGUE RESPONSE IN FERRITIC/MARTENSITIC STEELS – D. S. Gelles (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 16-21.
2. 3.2. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF Y-TI-O RICH PRECIPITATES IN NANOSTRUCTURED FERRITIC ALLOY MA957 BY TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY - N. J. Cunningham, Y. Wu, E. Haney and G. R. Odette (University of California Santa Barbara), pp. 22-27.

4_COPPER ALLOYS

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5_REFRACTORY METALS AND ALLOYS

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6_AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS

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7_FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS – INCLUDING MHD INSULATORS, COATINGS, INSULATING CERAMICS, AND OPTICAL MATERIALS

1. 7.1. COMPATIBILITY OF MATERIALS EXPOSED TO ISOTHERMAL Pb-Li – B. A. Pint (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), pp. 28-34.

8_BREEDING MATERIALS

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9_RADIATION EFFECTS, MECHANISTIC STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

1. 9.1 MODELLING THERMODYNAMICS OF ALLOYS FOR FUSION APPLICATION - A. Caro, P. Erhart, M. Serrano de Caro, B. Sadigh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), S.G. Srinivasan (UNT), A. Stukowski (Germany), pp. 35-39.
2. 9.2 MODELING OF POINT DEFECT CLUSTER EVOLUTION UNDER PULSED IRRADIATION - S.I. Golubov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee), R.E. Stoller (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), A.V. Barashev (The University of Liverpool), pp. 40-51.
3. 9.3 ATOMISTIC STUDIES OF PROPERTIES OF HELIUM IN BCC IRON USING THE NEW HE–FE POTENTIAL - David M. Stewart, Stanislav Golubov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee), Yuri Ostesky, Roger E. Stoller, Tatiana Seletskaia, and Paul Kamenski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 52-57.
4. 9.4 HARDENING DUE TO HE-FILLED BUBBLES IN IRON – Yu. N. Osetskiy, R. E. Stoller and D. Stewart (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 58-61.
5. 9.5 VALIDATION OF EQUIBIAXIAL FLEXURAL TEST FOR MINIATURIZED CERAMIC SPECIMENS - S. Kondo, Y. Katoh, J.W. Kim, L.L. Snead (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 62-70.

10_DOSIMETRY, DAMAGE PARAMETERS, AND ACTIVATION CALCULATIONS

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11_MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

• No contributions this period

12_IRRADIATION FACILITIES AND TEST MATRICES

1. 12.1 HFIR IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS – F. W. Wiffen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pp. 71.
2. 12.2 ASSEMBLY OF THE US-JAPAN MFE-RB-15J EXPERIMENT FOR IRRADIATION IN THE HFIR – T. Hirose, M. Ando, H. Tanigawa, N. Okubo (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), J. L. McDuffee, D. W. Heatherly, R. G. Sitterson, R. E. Stoller (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and T. Yamamoto (University of California, Santa Barbara), pp. 72-78.
3. 12.3 SUMMARY OF THE USCB ADVANCED TEST REACTOR NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC USERS FACILITY IRRADIATION EXPERIMENT – G. R. Odette, T. Yamamoto, B. Sams, D. Klingensmith, and N. Cunningham (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara); G. Waches, J. I. Cole, and P. E. Murrey (Idaho National Laboratory), pp. 79-89.