1. NEEP 541 Review for Second Exam
Fall 2002
Jake Blanchard

2. Outline
Review

3. Second Exam The second exam will be closed book
All questions will be qualitative
It covers everything we’ve discussed since the previous exam

4. Topics Material Properties Reactor materials – fission & fusion
Tensile tests – true stress and strain, plastic instability
Tube rupture tests – types of creep
Impact tests - DBTT

5. Focusing and Channeling
Definition
Energy range
Displacement effects
Channeling
Criteria for angle

6. Sputtering Model, including stopping power and binding energy
Energy Dependence
Angular Dependence
Empirical Models
Chemical Sputtering

7. Topics Strength Theoretical Dislocations Source hardening
Friction hardening
Hardening by depleted zones
Hardening by impenetrable obstacles
Loop hardening

8. Topics Damage in Steels Composition Black dot structure
Dislocation loops
Voids
Hardening
Transition temperature
Helium effects

9. Phase Change Spinodal Decomposition Nucleation and Growth
Inverse Kirkendall Effect
Temperature Effects

10. Topics Creep Embrittlement Primary, secondary, tertiary
Creep mechanisms
Irradiation effects
Fracture mechanisms
Embrittlement
Plastic instability
Helium effects
Grain size
Temperature effects

11. Topics Irradiation creep Mechanisms – SIPA, SIPN, etc.
Relation to swelling
Data

12. Topics Swelling Void stability vs. stacking fault Rate theory
Thermal emission
Effects on stresses
Contemporary theory
Data
Effects of composition, solutes, heat treatment, cold work

13. Topics Ion swelling Graphite Temperature shift Structure
Types of graphite
Swelling
Thermomechanical properties
Chemical sputtering

14. Topics Photons Radiation Environment in Space Interactions
Attenuation coefficients
Radiation Environment in Space

15. Topics Semiconductor Damage How a semiconductor works
Ionization in semiconductors
Displacements in Si

16. Topics Optical Properties Polymers Color centers Data
Mechanical properties
Electrical properties