SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1996
STP16525S

Correlation Between Shear Punch and Tensile Data for Neutron-Irradiated Aluminum Alloys

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As part of a study to determine the potential for using aluminum alloys as structural components in accelerators used to produce tritium, tensile specimens and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) disks of two aluminum alloys in two tempers were irradiated with neutrons from spallation reactions in the Los Alamos Spallation Radiation Effects Facility (LASREF) at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) at 90 to 120°C to a fluence of ~4×1020 n/cm2. Tensile and shear punch tests were performed on the irradiated alloys as well as on a similar unirradiated control matrix with a larger number of specimens, and a correlation between shear and tensile properties was developed for the unirradiated alloys and the irradiated alloys. Comparison of the correlations for the unirradiated and irradiated alloys showed that small differences in the correlations existed, however for purposes of estimation of uniaxial tensile properties, either correlation was found to be adequate.

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Hamilton, ML
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Toloczko, MB
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Edwards, DJ
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Sommer, WF
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Borden, MJ
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Dunlap, JA
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Stubbins, JF
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Lucas, GE
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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Developed by Committee: E10
Pages: 1057–1067
DOI: 10.1520/STP16525S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5328-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-2016-7