2018 | AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS 190 Lead University Title Principle Investigator University of California, Berkeley Understanding of degradation of SiC/SiC materials in nuclear systems and development of mitigation strategies Peter Hosemann University of Minnesota,Twin Cities Probabilistic Failure Criterion of SiC/SiC Composites Under Multi-Axial Loading Jialiang Le University of Wisconsin-Madison Advanced Coating and Surface ModificationTech- nologies for SiC-SiC Composite for Hydrothermal Corrosion Protection in LWR Kumar Sridharan University of Michigan Mechanistic Understanding of Radiolytically Assisted Hydrothermal Corrosion of SiC in LWR Coolant Environments Gary Was University of Florida Multiaxial Failure Envelopes and Uncertainty Quantification of Nuclear-Grade SiCf/SiC Woven Ceramic MatrixTubular Composites Ghatu Subhash University of Notre Dame Radiolytic Dissolution Rate of Silicon Carbide David Bartels University of South Carolina Development of Multi-Axial Failure Criteria for Nuclear Grade SiCf-SiCm Composites Xinyu Huang Active Projects Awarded in 2018 Nuclear Energy University Project Grants