Generation and migration of helium and other point defects under irradiation causes ferritic steels based on the Fe-Cr system to age and fail. This is motivation to study point defect migration and the He equation of state using atomistic simulations due to the steels' use in future reactors. A new potential for the Fe-Cr-He system developed by collaborators at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was validated using published experimental data. The results for the He equation of state agree well with experimental data. The activation energies for the migration of He- and Fe-interstitials in varying compositions of Fe-Cr lattices agree well with prior work. This research did not find a strong correlation between lattice ordering and interstitial migration energy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc30463 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Hetherly, Jeffery |
| Contributors | Srivilliputhur, Srinivasan Gopalan, Weathers, Duncan L., Rout, Bibhudutta |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | viii, 68 p. : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Hetherly, Jeffery, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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