MICRODEFORMATION OF URANIUM

Duration: 17 min

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Atomic Energy Commission

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Pictures changes in the microstructure of uranium as a consequence of tensile loading and thermal treatment, showing studies accomplished by means of hot stage metallography. Includes formation of twin and kink bands, distortion at grain boundaries, fracturing, recrystallization, deformation due to thermal gradients, and microstructural changes associated with thermal cycling through the alpha-tobeta and the beta-to-gamma transformations.