Advanced Coatings and Alloys for Enhanced Nuclear Accident Tolerance
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 456
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coatings and surface modification; fatigue and fracture; irradiation effects; finite element model; solid mechanics; in-situ mechanical testing
Interests: coatings; friction and wear; oxidation; corrosion; characterization
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Interests: accident tolerant coating; finite element model; interface fracture; solid mechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to review and highlight recent developments, progress, and challenges in the technology of coatings and alloys for enhancing the accident tolerance of nuclear fuel and components in light water reactors, fast-neutron reactors, supercritical water reactors, and so on. Following the Fukushima accident in 2011, accident tolerant fuel (ATF) has attracted worldwide interest from both the nuclear industry and academia. Among the popular strategies of ATF, surface coatings, or novel alloys have been regarded as promising techniques to enhance the performance of zirconium widely under accidental conditions as well as normal conditions. The substitute is expected to enhance the accident tolerance of fuel claddings in the case of severe accidents, e.g., loss of coolant accident (LOCA). Considering its importance in improving nuclear safety, the fabrication of novel coatings/alloys, microstructure characterization, experimental testing of properties, modeling and simulation are all of great interest to worldwide researchers and engineers.
The above contents were at the forefront of nuclear coatings, and the effects of coatings on performance in particularly had rarely been collectively discussed in any issue. Advances on experimental techniques, theoretical modeling, and numerical simulation will be covered. Recent progress, existing challenges, and perspectives will be addressed to add lights to this important topic.
Special focus will be on the benefits of coatings and alloys on properties, e.g., anti-oxidation, mechanical strength and failure, irradiation effects, lead-bismuth corrosion, etc. In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Advanced coatings for nuclear applications;
- Fabrication techniques of ATF coatings;
- Microstructure characterization of ATF coatings;
- High-temperature alloys;
- High-entropy alloys;
- Metallic and ceramic coatings;
- Multilayer coatings;
- High-temperature oxidation;
- Corrosion;
- Irradiation effects;
- Mechanical properties;
- Failure mechanism and prevention；
- deformation, fatigue and fracture.
Prof. Dr. Xianfeng Ma
Dr. Xiujie He
Dr. Jishen Jiang
Dr. Kan Ma
Guest Editors
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