Self-consistent calculation of steady-state creep and growth in textured zirconium

Abstract
Irradiation creep and growth in zirconium alloys result in anisotropic dimensional changes relative to the crystallographic axis in each individual grain. Several methods have been attempted to model such dimensional changes, taking into account the development of intergranular stresses. In this paper, we compare the predictions of several such models, namely the upper-bound, the lower-bound, the isotropic K∗ self-consistent (analytical) and the fully self-consistent (numerical) models.

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