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Amorphization Process of Cr-N Alloy System by Mechanical Alloying (기계적 합금화에 의한 Cr-N계 합금의 비정질화 과정)

  • 이충효;이성희;이상진;권영순
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.288-293
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    • 2003
  • Mechanical alloying (MA) by high energy ball mill of Pure chromium Powders was carried out under the nitrogen gas atmosphere. Cr-N amorphous alloy powders have been produced through the solid-gas reaction subjected to MA. The atomic structure during amorphization process was observed by X-ray and neutron diffractions. An advantage of the neutron diffraction technique allows us to observe the local atomic structure surrounding a nitrogen atom. The coordination number of metal atoms around a N atom turns out to be 5.5 atoms. This implies that a nitrogen atom is located at both of centers of the tetrahedron and octahedron formed by metal atoms to stabilize an amorphous Cr-N structure. Also, we have revealed that a Cr-N amorphous alloy may produced from a mixture of pure Cr and Cr nitrides powders by solid-solid reaction during mechanical alloying.

Design of a New Capsule Controlling Neutron Flux and Fluence and Temperature of lest Specimen

  • Choo, Kee-Nam;Kang, Young-Hwan;Taiji Hoshiya;Motoji Niimi;Takashi Saito
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.148-157
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    • 1997
  • A new capsule that has a unique structure in which the test environments including neutron flux and fluence, and irradiation temperature can be controlled precisely during irradiation, was conceptually designed. The capsule structure and instrumentation were successfully designed according to the JMTR's standard procedures of capsule design. Based on the target irradiation, the details of the irradiation such as neutron fluence and irradiation temperature ore calculated and the related capsule safety was evaluated. In addition, the effects of design parameters including the changes in inner-capsule configuration, heater capacity, and Helium gas pressure on the specimen temperature were analyzed with a computer program. Through these thermal and strength evaluations, this capsule was proved to be safe during the irradiation in the JMTR.

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Characteristics of High Density U-Mo Alloy Powder Prepared by Centrifugal Atomization

  • Kim, Ki-Hwan;Ahn, Hyeon-Seok;Lee, Don-Bae;Park, Hee-Dae;Kim, Chang-Kyu;Baek, Kyeong-Wook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1996.05c
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 1996
  • Characteristics of high density U-Mo alloy powder prepared by centrifugal atomization have been examined. The results indicate that the majority of the atomized U-Mo alloy particles has a smooth surface and frequently near-perfect spheroidal shape with few satellites attached. The size distribution of atomized U-Mo alloy powder shows the mono-modal size distribution seen in ligament disintegration mechanism. All phases of atomized alloy powder below 150$\mu\textrm{m}$ irrespectively to particle size are found to be ${\gamma}$-U (cubic structure) phases with isotropic structure and not to be U$_2$Mo phase at all. The microstructure of atomized U-Mo alloy particulates has micro-crystalline structure with non-dendritic gram supersaturated with Mo element. Also the grain size of ${\gamma}$ -U tends to decrease with the decrease of the powder diameter.

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Prediction of Atomic Configuration in Binary Nanoparticles by Genetic Algorithm (유전알고리즘을 이용한 이원계 나노입자의 원자배열 예측)

  • Oh, Jung-Soo;Ryou, Won-Ryong;Lee, Seung-Cheol;Choi, Jung-Hae
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.493-498
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    • 2011
  • Optimal atomic configurations in a nanoparticle were predicted by genetic algorithm. A truncated octahedron with a fixed composition of 1 : 1 was investigated as a model system. A Python code for genetic algorithm linked with a molecular dynamics method was developed. Various operators were implemented to accelerate the optimization of atomic configuration for a given composition and a given morphology of a nanoparticle. The combination of random mix as a crossover operator and total_inversion as a mutation operator showed the most stable structure within the shortest calculation time. Pt-Ag core-shell structure was predicted as the most stable structure for a nanoparticle of approximately 4 nm in diameter. The calculation results in this study led to successful prediction of the atomic configuration of nanoparticle, the size of which is comparable to that of practical nanoparticls for the application to the nanocatalyst.