Manufacturing of Plutonium Tensile Specimens

Conference · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1048689

Knapp, Cameron M ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory

Details workflow conducted to manufacture high density alpha Plutonium tensile specimens to support Los Alamos National Laboratory's science campaigns. Introduces topics including the metallurgical challenge of Plutonium and the use of high performance super-computing to drive design. Addresses the utilization of Abaqus finite element analysis, programmable computer numerical controlled (CNC) machining, as well as glove box ergonomics and safety in order to design a process that will yield high quality Plutonium tensile specimens.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/LANL
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1048689
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-12-23706; TRN: US201216%%1087
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2012 Los Alamos National Labboratory Student Symposium: "Championing Scientific Careers" ; 2012-08-07 - 2012-08-08 ; Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
42 ENGINEERING
COMPUTERS
DESIGN
GLOVEBOXES
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
MACHINING
MANUFACTURING
PERFORMANCE
PLUTONIUM
SAFETY