NE 409 / 509 - Nuclear Materials Home Work #9

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Final Exam: M, 5/5/2010 8am-11am (in class room)

Due :M 4/5/2010

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Test #2 is scheduled for Wednesday, March 31, 2010 (covers through dislocation theory) If a dislocation is pinned between two points a distance l apart, what will be its radius of curvature due to an applied stress, ? What is the critical stress for the operation of a Frank-Read source? What are subboundaries? How do tilt boundaries form? A dislocation pinned between 2 points remains to be semicircular (radius of curvature is half the pinning distance) under no force. True or false Like screw dislocations repel each other. True or false For a material with a dislocation density, what will be the mean dislocation-dislocation separation, l? How does the dislocation density influence the strength of a material (write down the relation).

2. a. Calculate the dislocation spacing in a tilt boundary (=0.5o) in a copper crystal (Cu: a = 0.36 nm). b. Consider dislocations blocked by point obstacles with an average spacing of l , in a copper crystal. If the flow stress is controlled by the stress necessary to operate a Frank-Read source, compute the dislocation density () in this crystal when it is deformed to a point where the resolved shear stress in the slip plane is 42 MPa. (G=50 Gpa). 3. a. A Li sample exhibited an yield strength of 10 MPa. Estimate the dislocation density assuming that the strengthening is all due to dislocations (strain-hardening)? {Li (bcc) : = 32 GPa; a = 3 ; = 0.29; Stacking Fault energy () = 1250 mJ/m2; TM = 181C} b. Estimate the strengthening if the dislocation density increases by a factor of 100 following coldworking (or exposure to radiation). 4. The following data are given for an aluminum alloy: G = 70 GPa, = 0.30, b = 0.25 nm and d = 40 m (grain size). a. Find c if the microstructure is 15 vol % precipitates with =0.45 and D=80nm. b. Find c if the microstructure is 5 vol % dispersoids with D = 35 nm. (=0.45) c. Find c if the microstructure is a dislocation network with density = 3 x 1014 m-2. (=0.5) d. Find c if the microstructure consists of all features a, b and c. 5. a. What is the Burgers vector of Shockley partials? Are they glissile dislocations (why)? b. Show that a perfect dislocation,

a [ 1 10] , in an fcc lattice splits into two Shockley partials. 2

c. What is the Burgers vector of Frank partials? Are they glissile dislocations (why)? d. A Shockley partial,

a a [112] , reacts with a Frank partial, [111] , to yield a perfect dislocation. 6 3

What is the Burgers vector of the product dislocation? Show that the reaction is valid. [This reaction occurs in irradiated stainless steel when heated. Similar reaction could also occur in quenched Al-Mg alloy from 550oC to -20oC followed by heating (see Fig. 5.12 in Hull and Bacon). These reactions lead to unfaulting of faulted loops.] 6. a. Describe the Blue Brittleness commonly observed in steels? (b) Describe DSA (or Portevin LeChatelier Effect). (c) How does DSA differ (i) in steels due to interstitials versus in (ii) solid solution alloys due to solute atoms.

Project reports for NE509 students The project reports are due to me by Friday, 4/23/2010. Project presentations will be scheduled for M and W during week of 4/26. Either send me your ppt file or come to the class on Monday 4/26th early by 10am to copy your ppt file onto the desktop to minimize time between presentations.