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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2652025
The development of discrete strain at the microstructural scale during the onset of plasticity is potentially linked to fatigue crack nucleation in engineering alloys. Hence, quantifying such discrete strain and its evolution is a pathway to understand the microstructural influence on fatigue crack nucleation and to develop crack initiation mode…
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UKAEA-RACE-PR(25)032024
When using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to perform multi-robot exploration in unknown environments, the training model may produce actions that lead to unpredictable system behaviours due to the complexity and unpredictability of the surroundings. Therefore, ensuring safe exploration with DRL becomes critical. To tackle this issue, we propo…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(25)2692024
A linear-elastic computer simulation (model) for a single particle of TRISO fuel has been built using a bond-based peridynamic technique implemented in the finite element code ‘Abaqus’. The model is able to consider the elastic and thermal strains in each layer of the particle and to simulate potential fracture both within and between layers…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2682024
Silicon carbide fibre reinforced silicon carbide matrix composite (SiC/SiC) is a key structural material for fusion reactors to allow high temperature operation of liquid lithium breeder blankets. This research investigated the corrosion behaviour of two SiC/SiC composites (using Tyranno SA3 and SA4 fibres) immersed in static liquid lithium at 6…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2662024
A new type of resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP), generated by helical coils, is proposed for controlling the edge localized mode (ELM) in H-mode tokamak plasmas. The helical coil optimization utilizes the MARS-F code (Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681) computed linear resistive fluid response of the plasma to the applied RMP field. The opti…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2522023
Coated nuclear fuel particles, most commonly tri-structural isotropic (TRISO), are intended for use in advanced high temperature reactors. The coatings of these particles are designed to protect and encapsulate the fuel during all stages of the fuel cycle, from manufacturing, through operation and up to disposal. It is vital to understand the me…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2512023
The injection of energetic neutral particles into the plasma of magnetic confinement fusion reactors is a widely-accepted method for heating such plasmas; various types of neutral beam are also used for diagnostic purposes. Accurate atomic data are required to properly model beam penetration into the plasma and to interpret photoemission spectra…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2482023
This work describes the usage of Error Field Correction coil system [Barlow I. et al 2001 Fusion Eng. Des. 58-59 189], which is a set of 4 coils located external to the vessel of the JET device, with the aim of introducing non-axisymmetric n=1 magnetic field perturbations in various targeted plasma experiments. Besides being used to characterize…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(24)2102023
This work addresses in-situ synergistic irradiation and thermomechanical loading of nuclear reactor components by linking new mechanistic understanding with crystal plasticity finite element modelling to describe the formation and thermal and mechanical annihilation of dislocation loops. A model of pressurised reactor cladding is constructed to …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(23)1902023
In the hot metal forming processes, materials deform viscoplastically and the microstructure of materials changes dynamically, and constitutive equations used to characterize the material flow and microstructure evolution during the deformation can be complicated. Although different types of constitutive equations have been proposed by many researc…
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