Thermal Conductivity of SiC/Si Composites – Porting PNNL EMTA Code for Fusion Analyses

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OSTI ID:1131378

Henager, Charles H.; Nguyen, Ba Nghiep

An existing modeling method, the EMTA (Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka approach) modeling approach [1], is applied to the study of SiC/SiC 2D woven composites for fusion reactor applications for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, with excellent results. We compare EMTA model results to existing thermal conductivity data for these materials and suggest that in the future this approach can be beneficial by providing us with tools to further optimize these composite materials for fusion energy applications since the EMTA method and code can address both thermal and mechanical properties with the same framework.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1131378
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-93685; AT6020100
• Resource Relation: Related Information: Fusion Materials Semiannual Progress Report for the Period Ending December 31, 2012, DOE-ER-0313/53:118-121
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English