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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2352024
Engineering components within a fusion reactor are subjected to extreme environments including high heat flux, strong magnetic fields, and neutron irradiation. Simulations are required to predict the in-service lifetimes of fusion components and ensuring credibility of these simulations requires validation over testable domains. Divertors are re…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)012024
Constitutive behaviour of fusion-relevant steels in the post-necking regime is necessary for detailed design of future fusion device components. A Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) procedure using Digital Image Correlation (DIC), a simulated DIC filter and novel constitutive law was developed. The effects of the DIC process and experimental nois…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1272023
The high source stability and brightness of field emission gun equipped scanning electron microscopes (SEM) makes them ideal for high-resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC). However, their high initial capital cost can be prohibitive for research organisations and groups. Conventional thermionic SEMs using either a tungsten hairpin or LaB
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1262023
Scanning electron microscopy-based is now an established technique, providing full-field strain and displacement measurement at the microscale. Techniques for generating speckle patterns for sub-micron strain mapping are highly substrate dependent but typically rely on applying aggressive conditions which may alter the microstructure of interest…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1752022
In-vessel plasma facing components in fusion reactors such as ITER and DEMO experience high thermal loads and require active cooling, for which water is one possible coolant. The solution where plasma facing components utilise tungsten blocks as sacrificial armour has a joint internal structure of cooling tubes made from the copper base (~99% Cu…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)832021
This Review considers current Zr alloys and opportunities for advanced zirconium alloys to meet the demands of a structural material in fusion reactors. Zr based materials in the breeder blanket offer the potential to increase the tritium breeding ratio above that of Fe, Si and V based materials. Current commercial Zr alloys might be considered …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)022019
Shear strain profiles along slip bands in a modified Rolls-Royce nickel superalloy (RR1000) were analyzed for tensile sample deformed by 2%. The strain increased with distance away from a grain boundary (GB), with maximum shear strain towards the center of the grain, indicating that dislocation nucleation generally occurred in the grain interior. T…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)012019
Proton irradiation is often used as a proxy for neutron irradiation but the irradiated layer is typically
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2005
The design of a power plant based on the spherical tokamak (ST) is being developed in order to explore its potential advantages. The plasma is operated in a double null configuration, forming both an upper and lower divertor. In order to accommodate the high erosion rates and heat fluxes developed in the divertors, a system based on a cascading flo…
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