Materials aging at the mesoscale: Kinetics of thermal, stress, radiation activations
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Short, Michael P
Yip, Sidney
Date Issued
January 2015
Journal
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science
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Elsevier
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Short, Michael P., and Yip, Sidney. “Materials Aging at the Mesoscale: Kinetics of Thermal, Stress, Radiation Activations.” Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 19, 4 (August 2015): 245–252 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd
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Abstract
The complexity of materials aging may be seen as a result of the interplay between several activation processes operating on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Though the disciplines involved may seem disparate at first, material aging fundamentally could be linked by the same set of underlying activations and responses of the system. We examine how recent studies of shear-induced deformation and rheological flow initiated in the soft-matter community can be leveraged to probe the mechanisms of radiation damage in nuclear materials. Bridging these two traditionally separate areas of research demonstrates the emerging notions of mesoscale science as a research frontier concerned with linking macroscale behavior to microscale processes in driven systems. We suggest the combining of microstructure-sensitive measurements with fundamental theories and mechanism-specific simulations is essential to addressing metastable materials responses of strongly activated states.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cossms.2014.12.005
