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Irradiation Creep in Several Metals and Alloys at 100° C

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ENHANCED stress relaxation under neutron irradiation is well known and has been observed in more than a dozen non-fissile materials1,2 (ref. 1 gives a review of earlier work), and recently steady state irradiation creep has been observed in nickel3. This communication briefly describes the results of an experiment designed to compare the irradiation creep of several metals and alloys at about 100° C. So far, no published data have shown the effect of differing metallurgical condition on the irradiation creep behaviour of a given material and the effects of such a variation, in two alloys, were also investigated.

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LEWTHWAITE, G., MOSEDALE, D. & WARD, I. Irradiation Creep in Several Metals and Alloys at 100° C. Nature 216, 472–473 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216472a0

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