A novel ultra-light structure for radiation shielding

Materials and Design

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2140-2146

  Xu, Siqi ^a   Bourham, Mohamed ^a   Rabiei, Afsaneh ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; BULK MATERIALS; BULK METALS; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; METALLIC FOAM; OPEN-CELL METAL FOAMS; PHOTON ENERGY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; STRUCTURE-BASED; THERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS; THERMAL NEUTRONS; ULTRA-LIGHT;

FOAMS; METALS; RADIATION SHIELDING;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 72749106762     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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