Handbook of thermophysical properties of solid materials-volume 1

JOURNAL

OF NUCLEAR

MATERIALS

5, No. 3 (1962) 347-343,NORTH-HOLLAND

PUBLISHING

CO., AMSTERDAM

BOOK REVIEWS J.

E.

(General

BURKE

Ceramic Science

(Volume

vii+232

1961.

pages.

This opening articles.

volume

Strength”,

R.

Chemistry

of Ionic

does not appear the

others

oxides

reviewed

mechanisms

detailed

article

problem

with

full review active,

in

conveys which

with

oxide

as active

The

paper

the great

he deals.

Gilman

author the

owing

himself.

Douglas’

article

level

understanding

relationship

between

and composition

of

on glasses

“pseudo-crystalline”

a

The

five

essays

high

this

have

Articles

on sintering

promised

are all written

as

to a

and augur well for the future

the series. It is surprising articles

and physical

review

mutated

that the titles in

and

for forthcoming

the

Table

on radiation

The

published

constants

Nuclear

in

all the with

of uranium

Power

Public

and

under

prepared

Information of charge.

(2), organic-cooled

quoted ation

is discussed

technical

and

for each project. officers

the

Electric

It appears

21 reactor

categories

sodium-cooled category

of one originally by

Program.

(8), sodium-cooled

Each

Projects,

Inc., 230 Park April 1961)

is the third edition

1958

boiling-water

projects

of water-cooled moderated

(!?I),

(2))

(1) andgas-cooled

in general financial

(3).

terms;

figures

Chief executives

fast very

are

also

and inform-

are also identified.

of

Bibliography on Nuclear Propulsion (Bibliographical Series, No. 3), (International Atomic Energy Authority, Vienna. 216 pages, 1508 references. 1961. Austr. Sch. 42, $ 2.00, 12s., NF 8, DM 6,40)

of two of the of

Contents.

damage

are

issues.

HAUSNER and HELEN C. FRIEDEBibliography on Powder Metallurgy in Nuclear Engineering, and (2) Bibliography on Uranium Carbides (Metallwerk Plansee AG, Reutte/Tyrol, Austria, 1961. (1) 119 pages, 643 references, with index. Austr. Sch. 52, $ 2.00. (2) 36 pages, 209 references, no index. Austr. Sch. 26, $ 1.00) HENRY

MANN,

with

structure

metallurgy.

under

standard

short

the

insight,

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is provided

third edition (Bozell Jacobs Avenue, New York 17, N.Y.,

abbreviated of

midway

empiricism

U.S.

free

suspended

physical

Fact Sheets on

the

sets

of

of glasses, and their properties;

between

by

is also included.

are listed,

field appears to exist in the same condition, characterises

monocarbide

again

of physical

to be distributed

of the

researches

present

A table

on

has written

to the remarkable

amplified

is concerned

and

Companies’

Taylor’s

complexity

are

bibliography uranium,

as

thermodynamic

vaporization.

references

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old, and it

is quite

of

abstracts.

thereon;

of the state of a field which is now extremely

largely

forth

is comparatively

concerned

involved

The second

on

and R. W.

of environment

volume.

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on

J. J. Gilman

Crystals”,

this field

of

abstract.

on “The

the fracture

in this

is primarily

quantities

the

cited

Thorn

of Glasses”.

reviews

that

J.

and Structure

of glasses and the influence much of the work

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of Glass

H. F. W. Taylor

Properties

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R. J. Charles

“Vaporization

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The

bibliography

rockets,

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general

ships, and other transport.

space is devoted

to ships, and includes

blems,

economics,

ship

design

(the major

section).

to readers

aspects, Two

design,

of this Journal

safety,

There

aircraft,

thirds

of the

general and

pro-

reactor

is much of interest

in this last section.

(1)

first

of these

most

useful

bibliographies

A. GOLDSMITH,

(548”

E.

WATERMAN

and

H.

J.

(Editors),

C). (PergamonPress.

758

pages, loose-leaf.

1961)

has

been produced in connection with the Fourth Plansee Seminar, on “Powder Metallurgy in the Nuclear Age”.

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Handbook of Thermophysical Properties of Solid Materials - Volume 1, Elements with Melting Points above 1000” F HIRSCHHORN

The volume volumes,

intermetallics, 347

under review

covering

elements,

polymers

is the first of a set of four alloys, and

ceramics,

composite

cermets, materials.

Except

for the last two categolies,

melting

poiJJts over

1000” F

The series was proposed Air Development the years apart

fJ,om

includes

containing

data

for

c>lemeJJts,

in the entire

series.

in graphical

Technological

form

: density, melting point, latent heats of fusion, and

pressure,

emissivity, pressure

sublimation,

specific

theJ,mal conductivity

reflectivity,

thermal

and electrical

resistivity.

full references

is included;

the last volume “R and ‘K; Fahrenheit The

appears.

the former

informat’ion

is

York,

point

Names

in a normal

ever,

has the advantage

(so that

apparently

refers

that, the

than the Pergamon

revised

uJJti1

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Properties (Phase l),

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of Materials at Low Temperatures A Compendium (Pergamon Press.

Loose-leaf.

(unnumerated)

compendium,

estimated

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800-1000

pages, is the first stage of a compendium

solids, at temperatures

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expansion,

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conductivity, ences

thermal

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present

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magnetic

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as a function

thermal

graphite, expansion,

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densit,y,

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resistivity

are to be included

fabrication

the

provides

a concise,

to Zircaloy-2,

development

Zircaloy-2

of

with

pick-up.

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Zircaloy-4,

a reduced

are three papers

of low permeability

(Al-AlsOa).

appoJntmg,

graphite,

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Full

refer-

exotic

materials,

such

and

ferro-

which,

from

nuclear

documented

mechanisms, kinetics and of radiation-induced poly-

the

but

whose

aluminium

of

application

fabrication

on the and

pro-

The

dismore

niobium.

vielv,

are

is being

difficulties. cover

with

and certainly

beryllium point

of technological

T~Jc~

Germany.

with aluminium,

no papers

as

of

to hydrogen

on the development

is surprising,

there

materials

modification

all from

on the sintered

It

that

attractive,

a

susceptibility

emphasis

in t)he next’

and fuel element

one of which describes

duct

thermal

on fuel

on IOth-13th

materials

particular

R. ROBERTS, Radiation-Initiated Polymerization and Graft Polymerization (Review Series, no. 13) (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. 43 pages. 1961. Au&r. Sch. 21, $ 1.OO, 6s., NF 4, DM 3.20). In English essay

cladding

glass),

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the papers

Out of fifteen papers on cladding

eight are devoted

because

short

to

May, 1960.Volume 1 is concerned entirely with the properties

fuel element

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held in Vienna

of temper-

of

contain

at the symposium

papers are concerned

etc.

phase.

review of the products, technological applications

under review

presented

remaining

conductivity,

metals,

heat

is iJo obstac
.Fuel Element Fabrication with Special Ew phasis on Cladding Materials (Academic Press, New York, 1961. Two volumes: Vol. 1, 100s.: Vol. 2, 71s.6d.)

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t,he modification

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to poly-et)hylene),

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on w&ling of

for PWR.

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