SUMMARIES OF THE USAEC BASIC RESEARCHnPROGRAMS IN METALLURGY, SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND CERAMICS

摘要

The objective of the Metallurgy and Materials Programs is to insure that research is conducted which advances the body of fundamental knowledge used to cope with the broad spectrum of materials problems facing nuclear technology. The approach taken is to investigate material structures, properties, and phenomena in the most rigorous possible fashion so that they may be explained and predicted in terms of fundamental laws of nature. This program embraces the traditional disciplines of physical metallurgy, ceramics, crystallography, corrosion, etc., but each in its most basic context. The newer discipline of solid state physics occupies a position of major importance in the program. Special importance is placed on understanding in detail the effects of irradiation on materials and the methods and tools of all these disci¬plines are applied to this problem.