About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2023 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Seaborg Institutes: Emerging Topics in Actinide Materials and Science
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Presentation Title |
Dynamical System Scaling for Thermomechanical Properties of Uranium and Plutonium in Pulsed Reactor Experiments |
Author(s) |
Ari Foley, Edward Lum, Daniel Olive |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ari Foley |
Abstract Scope |
Experiments on actinide samples in high dose neutron environments has re-emerged as an area of interest for assessing the behavior after rapid heating. Pulsed reactor testing of materials exposes targets to environments that simulate atypical conditions, such as short pulses of high power, providing valuable information on the thermophysical material properties and phase change. These experiments not only provide information on the effects of rapid heating, but the radiation damage, gas release characteristics, and annealing in that material. The Dynamical System Scaling (DSS) Methodology has been demonstrated to use non-dimensionalization of system parameters to quantify distortions in transient systems with respect to neutron pulse parameters. DSS is assessed as a design tool to produce experimental measurements analogous to desired conditions by minimizing distortions in the thermomechanical responses for varying pulse conditions. This research investigates pulsed reactor experiments of actinides and application of DSS to experiment design. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, |