Mechanical and Creep Behavior of Advanced Materials

Part I. Mechanical Anisotropy, Crystallographic Texture and Related Phenomena

1. Creep, Deformation and Fracture Studies of Materials for Various Technologies in the Nuclear Materials Research Group at NC State
Korukonda Linga Murty

2. Anisotropic Biaxial Creep of Textured Nb-Modified Zircaloy-4 Tubing
Nilesh Kumar, Kaitlin Grundy, Boopathy Kombaiah, Baifeng Luan, Korukonda Murty

3. Effect of Specimen Geometry, Orientation and Temperature on the Impact Toughness of Zr-2.5Nb Pressure Tube
Priti Kotak Shah, J. S. Dubey, R. N. Singh, Ashwini Kumar, B. N. Rath

4. Microstructure, Texture and Mechanical Properties of the 14YWT Nanostructured Ferritic Alloy NFA-1
S. Pal, M. E. Alam, G. R. Odette, S. A. Maloy, D. T. Hoelzer, J. J. Lewandowski

Part II. High Temperature Creep of Materials

5. Fundamentals of Creep in Aluminum Over a Very Wide Temperature Range
Michael E. Kassner, Kamia K. Smith

6. Dislocation Cross-Slip Controlled Creep at High Stresses and Transitional Creep Mechanisms in Zircaloy-4
B. Kombaiah, K. Linga Murty

7. Characterisation of Mechanical Properties Using Ball Indentation, Small Punch Creep and Impression Creep Methods
M. D. Mathew

8. TerraPower HT9 Mechanical and Thermal Creep Properties
Cheng Xu, Micah Hackett

9. Creep of Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys
Troy A. Hayes, Michael E. Kassner

Part III. Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline and Ultrafine-Grained Materials

10. Applying Conventional Creep Mechanisms to Ultrafine-Grained Materials
Megumi Kawasaki, Terence G. Langdon

11. On the Strain Rate Sensitive Characteristics of Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys
Sreedevi Varam, K. Bhanu Sankara Rao, Koteswararao V. Rajulapati

Part IV. Materials for Nuclear Environments

12. Synergistic Effects of Neutron Irradiation and Interstitial Nitrogen on Strain Aging in Ferritic Steels
N. Kumar, A. Alsabbagh, C. S. Seok, K. L. Murty

13. Irradiation Creep of Zr-Alloys
M. Griffiths, G. A. Bickel, R. DeAbreu, W. Li

14. Effect of Mo and Bi Additions on the Microstructure of Zr–Cr–Fe Alloy After β-Quenching
Jianmin Wang, Baifeng Luan, Korukonda L. Murty, Qing Liu

Part V. Cyclic Mechanical Behavior of Materials

15. Cyclic Deformation Behavior of Modified 9Cr–1Mo Steel at Elevated Temperatures
Vakil Singh, Preeti Verma

16. Effects of Blade Curvature on Fatigue Life of Nickel-Based Single Crystal Structures with Film-Cooling Holes
Zhixun Wen, Yamin Zhang, Youliang Li, Zhufeng Yue

Part VI. Structure-Property Relations and Fracture Behavior in Advanced Materials

17. Fundamental Discovery of Q-Phases and Direct Conversion of Carbon into Diamond and h-BN into c-BN
Jagdish Narayan, Anagh Bhaumik

18. High Temperature Tensile Properties and Related Microstructural Evolution in Grade 92 Steel
Sultan Alsagabi, Somayeh Pasebani, Indrajit Charit

19. Surface Finish Effects on Fracture Behavior of Sn–4Ag–0.5Cu Solder Joints
Dick R. Casali, Jamie J. Kruzic

20. Mechanical and Microstructural Effects of Thermal Aging on Cast Duplex Stainless Steels by Experiment and Finite Element Method
Samuel C. Schwarm, Sarah Mburu, R. Prakash Kolli, Daniel E. Perea, Jia Liu, Sreeramamurthy Ankem

21. Understanding Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Friction Stir Processed Aluminum-Bearing High-Chromium Ferritic Stainless Steel
Anumat Sittiho, Vedavyas Tungala, Indrajit Charit, Rajiv S. Mishra

22. Digital Stress Imaging in Mesoscale Microstructure Dependent Deformation Visualized Using Nano-mechanical Raman Spectroscopy: Role of Initial Manufacturing Originated Residual Stresses
Yang Zhang, Vikas Tomar

23. Fracture Behavior and Grain Boundary Sliding During High-Temperature Low-Stress Deformation of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy
Peiman Shahbeigi Roodposhti, Korukonda L. Murty

Keywords: Materials Science, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Structural Materials, Materials Engineering