Using automated j-r curve analysis software to simplify testing and save time: Newly developed automated software based on the ASTM standard e1820-18 normalization method is user friendly and yields results that match the manual analysis method

Funding

This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy, Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program, Mate rials Research Pathway, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with UT-Battelle LLC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). It was supported in part by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Lab- oratory HERE Program, sponsored by the DOE and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Educa- tion. The authors thank the following ORNL col- leagues: Keith Leonard for his programmatic sup- port, Lizhen Tan and Wei Tang for technical review of this manuscript, and Jungwon Kim for his as- sistance in setting up the Gitlab webpage for host- ing the software.