Use of charged particles beams for research of mechanical behaviour of thermonuclear reactor first wall candidate materials

Systematic analysis of radiation creep experiments at cyclic irradiation was performed. Peculiarities of radiation defect generation in metals at various charged particle bombardment were analyzed. An original method which connects radiation creep and stress relaxation is described. Stress relaxation in aluminium under 100 MeV carbon ion bombardment and in Al-Mg-Sc alloy under 5 MeV electron bombardment were investigated. The effects of cyclic irradiation were studied. It is shown that radiation creep under cyclic irradiation can be described by the 'climb plus glide' mechanism. (author). 2 tabs., 2 figs., 6 refs