Nuclear Materials Engineering Topics
- Atomic structure and chemical bonding
- Crystal lattices, unit cells and basic properties
- Miller indices
- Complex crystal structures and stacking of atomic planes
- Ceramic structures
- Thermochemistry (free energy, H, S, Arrhenius relations)
- Crystalline defects: point defects, dislocations and grain boundaries
- Dislocation theory – physical metallurgy
- Dislocation theory – mechanical properties
- Solid state diffusion – physical science and engineering application
- Phase diagrams – basics
- Phase diagrams – the Fe-C system
- Phase transformation – Temperature-time-transformation diagrams
- Stainless Steel, Ferrous, and non-ferrous alloys
- Mechanical properties – elasticity (Hooke’s Law)
- Mechanical properties – plasticity (dislocations, resolved stress, slip)
- Creep
- Corrosion (general)
- Corrosion (localized types of corrosion)
- Cladding degradation
- Radiation effects in solids
- Radiation damage (cascades, Frenkel pairs, microstructural evolution)
- Void swelling in metals – phenomena and theory
- Ion-solid interactions – phenomena and theory
- Nuclear fuel performance issues (swelling, restructuring, el. al.)