Welcome

The overarching goal of the CDP is to bring a radically new level of rigor and insight to the discussion of defect structure, interactions, and dynamics in metals and alloys: rigor born of quantitative experimental studies of defect evolution at the level of unit defect events and insight born of highly accurate calculations and simulations of properties that are based on a full quantum description of the underlying electronic interactions—calculations and simulations that will confront experimental measurements directly and at the level of unit events. The center focuses on three interrelated research thrust (RT) areas:

• RT1: Deformation and Evolution During Irradiation,
• RT2: Defect Interactions During Deformation, and
• RT3: Quantum Theory of Defects and Interactions.

—G. Malcolm Stocks, Director

EFRC Summer School 2012
Defects, Deformation and Damage Structural Materials
Knoxville, TN
June 11-15, 2012