On the Use of Structural Noise Parameters in Testing 20GL Steel with Rayleigh Surface Waves under Elastoplastic Deformation

Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing - The possibility of approaching the problems of testing the regularities of elastoplastic deformation of 20GL steel by the method of analyzing the...     

Metal fusion by laser radiation action in an oxidizing medium

Results are presented from a calculation of fusion of a massive zirconium plate under the action of laser radiation with consideration of simultaneous surface oxidation.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 11–14, July, 1991.     

Nonsteady thermocapillary mass transfer in the laser alloying of metals

This article examines convective mass transfer of an impurity in a shallow bath of molten metal with allowance for the motion of the fusion front during the laser alloying of metals.Notation r, z, cylindrical coordinates - t time - T_i temperature of the liquid (i=1) and solid (i=2) phases - q(r) absorbed energy flux - k concentration factor - T_m melting point - L heat of fusion - density - _i, _i thermal conductivity and diffusivity - T₀ initial temperature - , absolute and kinematic viscosities of the melt - v_r, v_z projections of the melt velocity on the coordinate axes r and z - p pressure - surface tension Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 799–805, May, 1989.     

Acoustic method for monitoring the state of VVER vessels

The results of an investigation of the possibility of using acoustic characteristics to evaluate the state of the VVER vessel material are presented. The investigations were performed on template–samples cut from the VVER-440 vessel material and on control samples from VVER-1000 vessels. It is shown that the characteristics of elastic waves depend on the fluence and the radiation embrittlement of VVER vessel materials. Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 106, No. 1, pp. 31–35, January, 2009.     

Investigation of the partitioning of fission products between the metallic and oxide phases of melt in a VVER-1000 vessel during a serious accident

The results of investigations of the interaction of U-Zr-B-C-O melt with steel, performed as part of the OECD MASCA program, are presented. It is established that the presence of Mo, Ru, Sr, Ba, Ce, and La in the melt does not qualitatively affect the interaction with structural steel and the character of the stratification of the melt in the reactor vessel. The partition factors of the fission products between the oxide and metallic phases are determined as a function of the oxidation of the melt, the ratio U/Zr, the composition of the structural steel, and the temperature. __________ Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 3–7, July, 2008.     

Kinetics of heat transfer between a spherical particle and a rarefied plasma. 1. Cold ion approximation

A. A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Translated from Inzhenerno-fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 41–46, January, 1992.     

Twinning of bismuth single crystals bombarded by boron ions

Twinning of ion-bombarded single crystals has been investigated for the first time. It has been established that bombardment of bismuth single crystals with boron ions stimulates mobility of twinning dislocations and quenches their sources. This result is explained using the dislocation model of a wedge-shaped twin. Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 1–9 (April 26, 1998)