Irradiation Performance Testing of Specimens Produced by Commercially Available Additive Manufacturing Techniques - Colorado School of Mines CX(s) Applied: B3.6Date: 09/22/2016 Location(s): IdahoOffices(s): Nuclear Energy
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September 22, 2016
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Irradiation Performance Testing of Specimens Produced by Commercially Available Additive Manufacturing Techniques - Colorado School of Mines
CX(s) Applied: B3.6
Date: 09/22/2016
Location(s): Idaho
Offices(s): Nuclear Energy
The Colorado School of Mines, in collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratory, proposes to collect first-ever irradiation performance data for stainless steel and Inconel specimens produced using a range of commercially available additive manufacturing techniques. The University will conduct pre-irradiation thermo-mechanical testing and micro-structural characterization of the specimens at the University’s facilities. A subset of the tensile bar specimens will be irradiated to a range of fast neutron fluences at typical light water reactor temperatures in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). Thermo-mechanical testing and micro-structural characterization of the irradiated specimens will be conducted at the Advanced Test Reactor National Scientific User Facility (ATRNSUF) post-irradiation facilities. The remaining un-irradiated specimens will be thermally aged at the University and subjected to post-aging thermo-mechanical testing and micro-structural characterization.