Radiation Tolerant Lubricants
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1806
Special Issue Editor
2. CERN, Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Geneva 23, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Interests: radiation effects in materials; polymeric materials; elastomers; irradiation facilities; dosimetry; Monte Carlo calculations; accelerator physics; radiation protection; nuclear physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the scientific community, an interest in the identification of radiation-tolerant materials and components and in a deeper comprehension of radiation damage effects is growing. A wide range of applications such as accelerator technologies, aerospace, fission, and fusion technology, civil nuclear, radioactive waste management, and any facility producing intense radiation levels is concerned.
Lubricants are more and more used out of necessity, in equipment exposed to radiation levels high enough to seriously compromise their operation. In such applications, maintenance is often not possible or very challenging and failure impact might be catastrophic. Accordingly, the study of radiation-tolerant lubricants is fundamental for the design of safe facilities and research infrastructures and for the development of new reliable technologies.
A need for up-to-date and rigorous testing methodologies, experimental data, and specific case studies is reported among the users of lubricants for extreme applications. Systematic investigations referring to different irradiation conditions, new products available on the market, and for use in specific equipment need to be produced and published. In particular, a multi-scale approach to this transversal topic is desired, aiming at correlating the radiation effects at the microscopic scale to the evolution of the rheological and tribological properties of lubricated systems as a function of the dose, while taking into account the effect of different irradiation parameters.
The scope of this Special Issue is to assess the state of the art on radiation-tolerant lubricants and to gather information on the activities and studies ongoing on these topics, with a special focus on :
- Radiation effects on lubricants and radiation tolerant formulations/products available on the market;
- Facilities for the irradiation and/or post-irradiation characterization of lubricants;
- Experimental and/or analytical approaches to assess the radiation effects in lubricant materials;
- Real examples of the application of lubricants in high-radiation areas;
- Criteria for the selection of lubricants for high-radiation applications;
- Failure analysis of lubricated equipment and degradation of lubricants after use in high-rad areas;
- Use of radiation-tolerant lubricants for the design and construction of rad-hard equipment.
Dr. Matteo Ferrari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lubricants
- radiation effects
- radiation-tolerant lubricants
- greases
- oils
- radiation damage
- dose
- high-radiation areas
- irradiation facilities
