A program to develop new methods to measure the fracture strength of the chemical vapor deposition SiC coatings in nuclear fuel particles has been carried out. Internal pressurization and crush test techniques were developed and applied to prototype‐sized tubular and hemispherical shell specimens. The fracture strength measured from each test method applying the Weibull two‐parameter distribution, and Weibull parameters were measured. It was shown that data generated with each test technique were independent of the test technique applied. This implies that the developed test methods are reliable and provide reasonable strength data. For the same material, fracture strength varied with the specimen geometry and loading configuration. These size and loading configuration effects on the fracture strength are explained with the concept of effective surface.
We investigated the elastic modulus behavior of crystalline InAs/amorphous Al2O3 core-shell heterostructured nanowires with shell thicknesses varying between 10 and 90 nm by conducting in situ tensile tests inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Counterintuitively, the elastic modulus behaviors of InAs/Al2O3 core-shell nanowires differ greatly from those of bulk-scale composite materials, free from size effects. According to our results, the elastic modulus of InAs/Al2O3 core-shell nanowires increases, peaking at a shell thickness of 40 nm, and then decreases in the range of 50-90 nm. This abnormal behavior is attributed to the continuous decrease in the elastic modulus of the Al2O3 shell as the thickness increases, which is caused by changes in the atomic/electronic structure during the atomic layer deposition process and the relaxation of residual stress/strain in the shell transferred from the interfacial mismatch between the core and shell materials. A novel method for estimating the elastic modulus of the shell in a heterostructured core-shell system was suggested by considering these two effects, and the predictions from the suggested method coincided well with the experimental results. We also found that the former and latter effects account for 89% and 11% of the change in the elastic modulus of the shell. This study provides new insight by showing that the size dependency, which is caused by the inhomogeneity of the atomic/electronic structure and the residual stress/strain, must be considered to evaluate the mechanical properties of heterostructured nanowires.
Low-cycle fatigue tests were carried out in air in a wide temperature range from room
temperature to 650oC to investigate the role of temperature on the low-cycle fatigue behavior of two types of stainless steels, cold-worked (CW) 316L austenitic stainless steel and 429 EM ferritic stainless steel. CW 316L stainless steel underwent additional hardening at room temperature and in 250-600oC: plasticity-induced martensite transformation at room temperature and dynamic strain aging in 250-600oC. As for 429 EM stainless steel, it underwent remarkable hardening in 200-400oC due to dynamic strain aging, resulting in a continuous increase in cyclic peak stress until failure. Three fatigue parameters, such as stress amplitude, plastic strain amplitude and plastic strain energy density, were evaluated. The results revealed that plastic strain energy density is nearly invariant through a whole life and, thus, recommended as a proper fatigue parameter for cyclically non-stabilized
materials.
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