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NEEP 541
Review for Second Exam
Fall 2002
Jake Blanchard
Outline
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Review
Second Exam
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The second exam will be closed book
All questions will be qualitative
It covers everything we’ve discussed since
the previous exam
Topics
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Material Properties
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Reactor materials – fission & fusion
Tensile tests – true stress and strain,
plastic instability
Tube rupture tests – types of creep
Impact tests - DBTT
Focusing and Channeling
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Focusing
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Definition
Energy range
Displacement effects
Channeling
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Definition
Criteria for angle
Sputtering
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Model, including stopping power and
binding energy
Energy Dependence
Angular Dependence
Empirical Models
Chemical Sputtering
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Strength
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Theoretical
Dislocations
Source hardening
Friction hardening
Hardening by depleted zones
Hardening by impenetrable obstacles
Loop hardening
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Damage in Steels
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Composition
Black dot structure
Dislocation loops
Voids
Hardening
Transition temperature
Helium effects
Phase Change
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Spinodal Decomposition
Nucleation and Growth
Inverse Kirkendall Effect
Temperature Effects
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Creep
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Primary, secondary, tertiary
Creep mechanisms
Irradiation effects
Fracture mechanisms
Embrittlement
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Plastic instability
Helium effects
Grain size
Temperature effects
Topics
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Irradiation creep
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Mechanisms – SIPA, SIPN, etc.
Relation to swelling
Data
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Swelling
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Void stability vs. stacking fault
Rate theory
Thermal emission
Effects on stresses
Contemporary theory
Data
Effects of composition, solutes, heat treatment,
cold work
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Ion swelling
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Temperature shift
Graphite
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Structure
Types of graphite
Swelling
Thermomechanical properties
Chemical sputtering
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Photons
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Interactions
Attenuation coefficients
Radiation Environment in Space
Topics
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Semiconductor Damage
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How a semiconductor works
Ionization in semiconductors
Displacements in Si
Topics
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Optical Properties
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Color centers
Data
Polymers
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Mechanical properties
Electrical properties