Reduction of stored energy in a heavily irradiated ceramic
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 62 (5) , 2062-2064
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.339550
Abstract
The decrease of stored energy that accompanies redamage of a metamict ceramic is compared with the calculated elastic strain energy resulting from the volume misfit between the disordered inclusions and the crystalline matrix. In the case of self-damaged CaPuTi2O7 it is found that the elastic energy contributes no more than 20% to the observed energy decrease. The major part of this decrease must be attributed to rearrangement of atoms by the redamage process into configurations of lower energy.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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