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Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and PROD Materials Properties Council... 

A5. T. Ishiguro, K. Kimura, T. Hatakeyama, T. Tahara and K. Kawano, Effect Metallurgical Factors on Hydrogen Attack Resistance in C-0.5Mo, presented at the Second International Conference on Interaction with Hydrogen in Petroleum Industry Pressure Vessel and Pipeline Service, The Materials Properties Council, Inc., Vienna, Austria, October 19-21,1994. 

Report on the Effect of Stainless Steel Weld Overlay or Cladding on Hydrogen Attack of Underlying Steel, Materials Properties Council, New York, September 1984. 

STEELTUF Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and PROD Materials Properties Council toughness of more than 100 grades of steels used in the power industry... 

Prager M (1985), Final Report Evaluation, Analysis and Transfer of Materials Property Data, The Materials Properties Council, Inc., New York. 

A. Vignes, R. Palengat and P. Bocquet Interaction of Steels with Hydrogen in Petroleum Industry Pressure Vessel Service ed. M. Prager, The Material Properties Council Inc., 1993, p. 139... 

FIGURE 5.3 The myriad functions, properties, and applications of advanced ceramics. Reprinted from High-Technology Ceramics in Japan, National Materials Advisory Board, National Research Council, 1984. 

The recent report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Limitations of Rock Mechanics in Energy Resource Recovery and Development", highlighted some of the problems which must be addressed. The rock strength and other mechanical properties of the media must be understood both under the impact of the thermal pulse represented by the release of heat from decaying radioactive waste materials and the perturbation represented by construction of the mine. The resulting thermal stresses must be understood in developing the layout and the allowable rate of heat generation from the individual canisters. 

When polymer processors and modellers become directly involved with such materials and in TSPs, we expect a greatly increased interest. However, it is our personal experience that, so far, neither UK industry, nor the Research Councils, see non-food starch processing and the properties of the resultant materials as priority areas. By its nature, as we have stressed above, such work is highly interdisciplinary, and tends to cross the borders between physical and engineering sciences and the biological sciences. 

Our research on the use of ROP as a route to transition metal-based polymers has been supported by the Ontario Center of Materials Research (OCMR), the ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Institute of Chemical Science and Technology (ICST). Research on Ihe detailed properties of the polymers is being carried out in collaboration with the Polymer Materials Science Research Group of Professor G. Julius Vancso at the University of Toronto. I would also like to acknowledge and thank my very talented and enthusiastic coworkers who have carried out this research and whose names are found in the references. 1 am also grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a fellowship (1994-1996). 

ANTHONY G. EVANS is the Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Engineering at Harvard University. His research interests include the mechanical properties of brittle materials particularly the fracture of ceramics under conditions of impact thermal and mechanical stress and failure prediction based on nondestructive evaluation. He is a recipient of the American Ceramic Society s Ross ColEn Purdy Award and has authored and co-authored several publications. Dr. Evans is a member of the National Materials Advisory Board and has served on several National Research Council committees. Dr. Evans was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for his contributions to the development and understanding of structural materials. 

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