DOE/ER-0313/42 - Volume 42
Semiannual Progress Report
June 30, 2007

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1_VANADIUM ALLOYS

1. OPERATION OF AV-4CR-4TI THERMAL CONVECTION LOOP WITH Li AT 700°C—ORNL Loop Team: B. A. Pint, S. J. Pawel, M. Howell, J. L. Moser, G. Garner, M. Santella, P. F. Tortorelli, and J. R. DiStefano (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp.2-5.

2_CERAMIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS

1. SUBCRITICAL CRACK PROPAGATION STUDIES IN HI-NICALON AND HI-NICALON TYPE-S FIBER SiC/SiC COMPOSITES USING COMPACT TENSION SPECIMENS—C. H. Henager, Jr. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 7-10.

3_FERRITIC/MARTENSITIC STEELS

1. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF UNIRRADIATED AND IRRADIATED REDUCED-ACTIVATION MARTENSITIC STEELS WITH AND WITHOUT NICKEL COMPARED TO PROPERTIES OF COMMERCIAL STEELS—R. L. Klueh, M. A. Sokolov, and N. Hashimoto (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 12-24.
2. THE THERMAL STABILITY OF NANOSTRUCTURED FERRITIC ALLOYS—P. Miao, G. R. Odette, T. Yamamoto, and D. Klingensmith (University of California, Santa Barbara), pp. 25-33.

4_COPPER ALLOYS

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5_REFRACTORY METALS AND ALLOYS

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6_AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS

1. INFLUENCE OF SILICON ON SWELLING AND MICROSTRUCTURE IN RUSSIAN AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS IRRADIATED TO HIGH NEUTRON DOSES—S. I. Porollo, S. V. Shulepin, Yu. V. Konobeev (State Scientific Center of Russian Federation, Institute of Physics and Power Engineering), and F. A. Garner (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), pp. 37-51.

7_MHD INSULATORS, INSULATING CERAMICS AND OPTICAL MATERIALS

1. TRANSFORMATION OF Al₂O₃TO LiAlO₂ IN Pb-17Li AT 800°C—B. A. Pint and K. L. More (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), p. 53-57.

8_BREEDING MATERIALS

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9_RADIATION EFFECTS, MECHANISTIC STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

1. PREDICTION OF STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF Y-Ti-O COMPLEX OXIDES USING AB-INITIO CALCULATIONS—Y. Jiang, J. R. Smith, and G. R. Odette (University of California, Santa Barbara), pp. 60-66.
2. THE FORMATION AND STABILITY OF HE-VACANCY CLUSTERS WITHIN DISPLACEMENT CASCADES IN a-Fe—F. Gao, H. L. Heinisch, and R. J. Kurtz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)*, pp. 67-71.
3. MODELLING THERMODYNAMICS OF ALLOYS FOR FUSION APPLICATION—A. Caro, P. Erhart, M. Serrano de Caro, B. Sadigh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), E. Lopasso (Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentine), D. Farkas (Virginia Polytechnic Institute), S. G. Srinivasan and C. Jiang (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), pp. 72-79.
4. EFFECT OF MASS OF THE PRIMARY KNOCK-ON ATOM ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE DEBRIS IN a-IRON—A. F. Calder, D. J. Bacon, A. V. Barashev (The University of Liverpool), and Yu. N. Osetsky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 80-88.
5. EFFECT OF SIZE ON THE DESTRUCTION MECHANISMS OF STACKING FAULT TETRAHEDRA INDUCED BY GLIDING DISLOCATIONS IN QUENCHED GOLD—Y. Matsukawa (Argonne National Laboratory), Y. N. Osetsky, R. E. Stoller, and S. J. Zinkle (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), pp. 89-105.
6. A COMPRESSION ANVIL BEAM TEST METHOD TO MEASURE THE ARREST FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF SEMI-BRITTLE MATERIALS WITH SMALL SPECIMENS—M. Y. He, G. R. Odette, and M. Hribernik (University of California), pp. 106-116.
7. A CHEVRON NOTCHED WEDGE LOADED DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM TEST METHOD TO MEASURE THE INITIATION AND ARREST FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF SEMIBRITTLE MATERIALS WITH SMALL SPECIMENS—G. R. Odette, M. Y. He, and M. L. Hribernik (University of California, Santa Barbara), pp. 117-127.

10_DOSIMETRY, DAMAGE PARAMETERS, AND ACTIVATION CALCULATIONS

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11_MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

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12_IRRADIATION FACILITIES AND TEST MATRICES

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