Nuclear materials webinar - IDEAS 2024

Join this exciting and insightful webinar on “Nuclear Materials” hosted by the Department of Design, IIT Roorkee in association with the Nuclear Materials Group at Queen's University, Canada, under the banner of the International Symposium IDEAS-2024.

This webinar is designed for undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students, as well as faculty members interested in exploring the future of nuclear energy and materials science.

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Platform: Zoom (Link will be shared after registration) 

Registration: 

No additional registration fee is required to be paid, but filling up of the registration form is mandatory.
Please register for the event using the following link: Webinar Registration

Agenda:

Introduction to the Nuclear Materials Group and RMTL
Micromechanisms of deformation in metals, ceramics, and composites
- Prof. Mark Daymond

Irradiation effects on the performance of structural materials and characterization
- Prof. Levente Balogh

Defects and defect engineering in complex materials: Experiments and modeling
- Profs. Yanwen Zhang and Laurent Béland

 Microstructure and properties of nuclear materials and composite coatings
- Prof. Zhongwen Yao

Corrosion and high temperature oxidation of metals and alloys used in nuclear power plants
- Prof. Suraj Persaud

Get to Know Your Speakers:

The Nuclear Materials Group is committed to advancing nuclear energy as a much-needed part of Canada's future low carbon and sustainable energy plan. The group is internationally competitive with very strong industrial connections.

Six faculty members form a core team. 

Prof. Mark R. Daymond leads the Nuclear Materials Group and is an expert in radiation-induced deformation mechanisms in nuclear structural alloys, with a focus on thermomechanical properties, slip, twinning, phase transformations, cracking, material characterization, and crystal plasticity modeling. 

Prof. Levente Balogh focuses on advanced X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques to study radiation-induced damage and microstructural changes in materials. 

Prof. Laurent K. Béland develops and applies computational methods to address science and engineering challenges, drawing on principles from physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, solid mechanics, and mathematical modeling. 

Prof. Suraj Persaud specializes in corrosion and high-temperature oxidation of metals and alloys, particularly those used in nuclear power plant components. 

Prof. Zhongwen Yao is an expert in microstructural characterization, focusing on radiation damage, dislocations, vacancy defects, and defect clusters in nuclear materials. 

Prof. Yanwen Zhang explores equilibrium and non-equilibrium defect dynamics, ion beam modification, and radiation effects in materials, with an emphasis on tailoring the functionality and properties of complex materials.