H. Trinkaus, LOCAL STRESS-RELAXATION IN THERMAL SPIKES AS A POSSIBLE CAUSE FOR CREEP AND MACROSCOPIC STRESS-RELAXATION OF AMORPHOUS SOLIDS UNDER IRRADIATION, Journal of nuclear materials, 223(2), 1995, pp. 196-201
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23
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Mining & Mineral Processing","Material Science
Under energetic particle bombardment, stress-free and substrate-bound
amorphous films show substantial creep and stress relaxation. A visco-
elastic model is described in which these phenomena are attributed to
local shear stress relaxation in thermal spikes induced by the energy
transfer from the projectile particle to the target, followed by freez
ing-in of the associated strain increments during cooling down. For pr
onounced thermal spikes, simple asymptotic expressions are derived and
compared with experimental results.