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Samuel Bell

Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (8)

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Additive Manufacturing Geometrically Simple Stainless Steel (SS316L) Canisters for Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP)

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Dec 2025
KPK Ajjarapu, Fred A List III, Subrato Sarkar, Jason R. Mayeur, Samuel Bell, Hsin Wang, Brian Jordan, Chase Joslin, Ryan Dehoff and Soumya Nag
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Blown Powder Directed Energy Deposition (BP-DED), Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Powder Metallurgy-Hot Isostatic Pressing (PM-HIP), Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD), Tensile Properties

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Step-Loaded Isothermal Creep Testing and the Effectively Isotropic Behavior of Zircaloy-4 at Higher Temperatures in the Α-Phase

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Oct 2024
Samuel Bell, Mackenzie Ridley, Caleb Massey and Nathan Capps
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Zirconium fuel cladding, creep, isotropy, accident

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Effect of Cannister Wall Thickness on Densification Pathways, Microstructure Evolution, and Mechanical Properties of Powder Metallurgy Hot Isostatically Pressed 316L Stainless Steel

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Dec 2025
KPK Ajjarapu, Fred A List III, Subrato Sarkar, Jason R. Mayeur, Samuel Bell, Ryan Dehoff and Soumya Nag
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Powder Metallurgy, Hot Isostatic Pressing, Stainless Steel, Microstructure, Stress Shielding

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Recrystallization Driven Softening and Heating Rate Dependencies of FeCrAl Nuclear Fuel Cladding During Accident Transients

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Samuel Bell, Mackenzie Ridley, Nathan Capps, Ryan Sweet, Yukinori Yamamoto and Caleb Massey
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accident transient behavior, Microstructural evolution, burst testing, nuclear fuel cladding, Accident Tolerant Fuel Claddings, light water reactor

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Upcycling Red Mud as a Flux for Direct Reduced Iron Refinement and its Comparison with Commercial Flux

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Mar 2026
Vanshika Singh, Rangasayee Kannan, Brian Hicks, Chris M. Fancher, Sarah Graham, Brett Spigarelli, Julio Ortega Rojas, Samuel Bell, Peeyush Nandwana, Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, Thomas Feldhausen and Adam Stevens
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Direct Reduced Iron, Red mud, Refinement, Iron and Steel

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Bison Validation to in Situ Cladding Burst Test and High-Burnup Loca Experiments

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Feb 2023
Nathan Capps, Mackenzie Ridley, Yong Yan, Samuel Bell and Kenneth Kane
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FFRDValidationcladding strainballoon

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A Model to Assess Zircaloy's Mechanical Property Changes Following a Transient Beyond Critical Heat Flux

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Aug 2025
Nathan Capps, Mackenzie Ridley, Samuel Bell, John Baele, David Schrire, Aaron Phillippe, Baris Sarikaya, Kan Sakamoto and Mahmut Nedim Cinbiz
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time at temperature, power updates, light water reactor, cladding performance, critical heat flux, dryout, departure from nuclear boiling

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Quantifying biases and limitations of two-dimensional DIC during LOCA burst testing of fuel cladding to support deployment in hot cell environments

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Feb 2026
Samuel Bell, Peter Doyle, Nathan Capps and Mackenzie Ridley
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LOCA, ATF, digital image correlation, hot cell DIC, in-situ ballooning