Code
01DI3915
Duration
01 October 2015 → 31 March 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Condensed matter physics and nanophysics
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Engineering and technology
- Electrical power engineering
- Energy generation, conversion and storage engineering
- Ceramic and glass materials
- Materials science and engineering
- Metallurgical engineering
- Semiconductor materials
- Other materials engineering
- Other engineering and technology
Keywords
material characterization
high heat flux tests
plasma wall interaction
tungsten
transient thermal loads
nuclear fusion
plasma facing material
Project description
Tungsten is used in fusion reactors to shield the rest of the device from the hot plasma. Therefore, tungsten is simultaneously exposed to a combination of neutron, particle and heat radiation. Two exposure conditions, H/He flux and thermal loads, are experimentally studied. This project will identify the alteration in damage behavior from both exposure-types in the presence of the other.