To increase the power density and maximum allowable fuel burnup in light water reactors, new fuel rod designs are investigated. Such fuel is desirable for improving the economic performance light water reactors loaded with transuranic-bearing fuel for transmutation, as well as those using UO2 fuel. A proposal for using silicon carbide duplex as fuel cladding is investigated. The cladding consis...

Abstract A comparative analysis of the tribological behavior commercially available sintered silicon carbide (SiC) and three different types nitride (Si 3 N 4 ) ceramics have been carried out using ball‐on‐disk method in dry lubrication (deionized [DI] water ethanol) environment. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to understand morphology chemical composition tribo‐surfaces. Sintered S...

In this study; iron based powder metal (PM) bushing compacts were sintered via medium frequency induction heating system. Iron based powders were mixed with 2 wt.% copper (Cu), 0.3 wt.% carbon (C) and 1 wt.% zinc stearat (Zn-st) via V-Type mixer. PM compacts were sintered by 2 different sintering processes. One of them was conventional sintering method other was medium frequency induction sinte...

Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and B Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996-221 † Electronic supplementary information sintered multiple-CS-NP model Ag5Cu2. mean square displacement and cross-sec with Ag8Cu4 and Ag11Cu5.5 (Fig. S2); na NPs at 600 K (Fig. S3); mean square d atoms during the sintering of multiple Ag for four sintered structures (Fig. S5); p quenching process of the sintered...