22.08.2015   Comprehensive nuclear materials

The rates P(x) and Q(x)

Equations [54] and [62] for the sink strengths of voids and dislocation loops for mobile PDs permit the calculation of rates P(x) and Q(x), which deter­mine the cluster evolution described by the ME (see Section 1.13.4.3.2). For example, the total rate of absorption of vacancies by voids is equal to k^DvCv (see eqns [10] and [45]). The same quantity is given

by Pc( x)fc(x). By equating these two rates one

x=2

obtains