Residual stresses in thorium slugs /
by J. Walter Joseph, Jr. and John W. Walker.

Description

Main Author

Joseph, J. Walter.

Related Names

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Savannah River Laboratory.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.

Language(s)

English

Published

[Washington, D.C.?] : E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Explosives Dept., Atomic Energy Division, Technical Division, Savannah River Laboratory, [1956]

Subjects

Thorium > Thorium / Compression testing.

Summary

Residual stresses of 2000 to 8000 psi in compression were measured at the surface of cylindrical slugs of thorium. The stresses were measured by boring holes in the slugs and measuring the resulting surface deformation with strain gages. The tensile stresses that result from thermal gradients in the slugs during irradiation are partially counteracted by these residual stresses.

Note

"Metallurgy and Ceramics."
"Printed for the United States Atomic Energy Commission Contract AT(07-2)-1."
"September 1956."
"DP-169."

Physical Description

28 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

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