Radiation Damage in Metallic Systems for Fusion Energy Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Failure Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2025) | Viewed by 3116
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear fusion offers a near-limitless, safe and clean energy source. Major challenge for the realization of fusion energy production is the development of suitable materials to endure the harsh fusion environment of intense thermomechanical stresses, and energetic particles of high fluxes. The most significant parts of experimental fusion reactors and energy producing future ones, such as the first wall, divertor, limiters and breeding blanket, are metals and metallic systems. Radiation damage in metallic systems deteriorates their properties and considerably reduces their lifetime.
In order to improve radiation resistance of metallic systems, both the understanding of the radiation damage based on experiments and multiscale materials modelling and the engineering properties of the materials after irradiations exposure are required.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to invite papers addressing the characterization of metallic materials after irradiation under different conditions and energetic particles, defect production and their interaction, modelling of the radiation damage, and the thermo-mechanical response of metals after irradiation with respect to their perspective fusion application.
Potential research contributions to this Special Issue can focus on the following:
(i) The understanding of radiation damage at the atomic-to-mesoscale and related modelling;
(ii) Use of characterization techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy, atom probe tomography, positron annihilation spectroscopy, and neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering, for radiation damage assessment;
(iii) Theoretical and experimental investigations of the influence of radiation conditions on damage production and damage microstructure evolution;
(iv) Development of novel radiation resistant metas and alloys;
(v) Micro/macro-scale testing of irradiated metallic systems;
(vi) Impact of damage on performance and structural integrity.
Dr. Konstantina Mergia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- radiation damage
- ion irradiation
- neutron irradiation
- multiscale modelling
- plasma facing materials
- structural materials
- fusion materials
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