Group Members Present Latest Work at Nuclear Graphite Conference

This year the 8th EDF Nuclear Graphite Conference (link) was hosted at The Queen's College here in Oxford, with Prof. Dong (Lilly) Liu being a conference co-chairmen with Dr Jim Reed (EdF Nuclear Operations), and Prof. Tony Wickham being the conference manager.

Including Lilly, 4 other EMAM group members presented: Postdoc Dr Ming (Eric) Jiang, Visiting Research Fellow Dr Oliver Stevens, and our two DPhil students Sophia Carpio and Matthew Harrison.

Talks:

• "Foundation Vision Models and Physical AI Frameworks for Nuclear Graphite

  Characterization" -  Presented by Dr Oliver Stevens

• "Investigating Irradiation Creep in Gilsocarbon Graphite using X-ray Diffraction" - Presented by Matthew Harrison

• "Studying Crack Initiation, Permanent Damage, and Residual Strain in Fine-

  Grained Nuclear Graphite using Double Notch Four-Point Bend" - Presented by Dr Ming (Eric) Jiang

• "Mixed mode I/II fracture of Gilsocarbon graphite at 1000°C" - Presented by Dr Ming (Eric) Jiang

• "High Strain-Rate Testing of Nuclear Graphite" - Presented by Sophia Carpio

We thank the sponsors of this conference:

• EdF Nuclear Operations

• The American Ceramic Society

• Amentum, AtkinsRéalis, Bellrock Technology, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, Nuclear Restoration Services, Quintessa

• UK National Nuclear Laboratory