Mechanical and Creep Behavior of Advanced Materials: A SMD Symposium Honoring Professor K. Linga Mur

Part 1: Mechanical Anisotropy, Crystallographic Texture and Related Phenomena.- Creep, Deformation and Fracture Studies of Materials for Various Technologies in the Nuclear Materials Research Group at NC State.- Anisotropic Biaxial Creep of Textured Nb-modified Zircaloy-4 Tubing.- Effect of Specimen Geometry, Orientation and Temperature on the Impact Toughness of Zr-2.5Nb Pressure Tube.- Microstructure, Texture and Mechanical Properties of the 14YWT Nanostructured Ferritic Alloy NFA-1.- Irradiation Creep of Zr-Alloys.- Part 2: High Temperature Creep of Structural Materials.- Fundamentals of Creep in Aluminum Over a Very Wide Temperature Range.- Dislocation Cross-Slip Controlled Creep at High Stresses and Transitional Creep Mechanisms in Zircaloy-4.- TerraPower HT9 Mechanical and Thermal Creep Properties.- Part 3: Advanced Materials and Processing.- Applying Conventional Creep Mechanisms to Ultrafine-Grained Materials.- On the Strain Rate Sensitive Characteristics of Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys.- Part 4: Materials for Nuclear Environments.- Synergistic Effects of Neutron Irradiation and Interstitial Nitrogen on Strain Aging in Ferritic Steels.- Part 5: Creep, Creep-Fatigue and Related High Temperature Mechanical Behavior.- Cyclic Deformation Behavior of Modified 9Cr-1Mo Steel at Elevated Temperatures.- Characterisation of Mechanical Properties Using Ball Indentation, Small Punch Creep and Impression Creep Methods.- Part 6: Structure-Property Relations and Fracture Behavior in Advanced Materials.- 2017 TMS Keynote Abstract: Superhard Materials: Discovery of Q-phases and Direct Conversion of Carbon into Diamond and h-BN into c-BN.- Surface Finish Effects on Fracture Behavior of Sn-4Ag-0.5Cu Solder Joints.- Mechanical and Microstructural Effects of Thermal Aging on Cast Duplex Stainless Steels by Experiment and Finite Element Method.- Digital Stress Imaging in Mesoscale Microstructure Dependent Deformation Visualized Using Nano-mechanical Raman Spectroscopy: Role of Initial Manufacturing Originated Residual Stresses.- Fracture Behavior and Grain Boundary Sliding during High-Temperature Low-Stress Deformation of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy.- Part 7: Mechanical Behavior of Titanium and Zirconium Containing Alloys.- Creep of Zirconium and Zirconium Alloys.- Effect of Mo and Bi Additions on the Microstructure of Zr-Cr-Fe alloy After ß-quenching.- Part 8: Poster Session.- Effects of Blade Curvature on Fatigue Life of Nickel-Based Single Crystal Structures with Film-Cooling Holes.- High Temperature Tensile Properties and Related Microstructural Evolution of Grade 92 Steel.- Understanding of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Friction Stir Processed Al-Bearing, High-Cr Ferritic Stainless Steel.