Dr. Paul Van Uffelen graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and the Ecole
Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Grenoble (France) with a master degree in …

Fuel performance codes are critical tools for the design, certification, and safety analysis of
nuclear reactors. However, their ability to predict fuel behavior under abnormal conditions is …

In this paper, a thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical coupling peridynamic model of fractured
rock mass is proposed to simulate the fluid-driven crack and the characteristics of water …

An improved coupled thermo-mechanical bond-based peridynamics with multirate time
integration scheme is developed to study the thermal shock cracking behaviors in brittle …

Irregular non-uniform discretization of the solution domain in models based on peridynamic
theory can improve computational efficiency by allowing local refinement and remove mesh …

Ceramic fuel pellets used in nuclear light water reactors experience significant fracture due
to the high thermal gradients experienced under normal operating conditions. This has …

A coupled thermo-mechanical bond-based peridynamic model is developed to investigate
thermal fracturing behaviors, including random initiation and subsequent propagation of …

This study presents the peridynamic simulation of thermal cracking behavior in uranium
dioxide, UO 2 fuel pellets that are used in light water reactors (LWR). The performance of the …

This work presents phase-field modeling of quasi-static cracking in urania (UO 2) ceramic
nuclear fuel under neutron radiation at high temperatures. Considering the tightly coupled …

This study presents peridynamic field equations for mechanical deformation, thermal
diffusion, moisture diffusion, electric potential distribution, porous flow and atomic diffusion in …