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Modelling of Dislocation Bias in FCC Materials ZHONGWEN CHANG Licentiate Thesis in Physics Stockholm, Sweden 2013 TRITA FYS 2013:20 KTH Reaktorfysik ISSN 0280-316X AlbaNova Universitetscentrum ISRN KTH/FYS/–13:20-SE SE-106 91 Stockholm ISBN 978-91-7501-785-3 SWEDEN Akademisk avhandling som med tillstånd av Kungliga Tekniska högskolan fram- lägges till offentlig granskning för avläggande av teknologie licentiatexamen i fysik onsdagen den 12 juni 2013 klockan 10:15 i FA31, AlbaNova Universitetscentrum. © Zhongwen Chang, Juni 2013 Tryck: Universitetsservice US AB iii Abstract Irradiation induced void swelling is problematic for the application of austenitic steels under high dose irradiation. In this thesis, the swelling is characterized by dislocation bias. The dislocation bias is obtained using the finite element method, accounting for fcc copper and nickel under electron irradiation. The methodology is implemented with the interaction energies between an edge dislocation and point defects. Analytically derived interac- tion energies, which are based on elasticity theory, are compared with inter- action energies obtained from atomistic model using semi-empirical atomic potentials as physics basis. The comparison shows that the description of analytical interaction energies is inaccurate in the dislocation core regions. The bias factor dependence on dislocation density and temperature is pre- sented and discussed.