Helpful discussion with Peter Carter of Stress Engineering Services, Inc. is gratefully acknowledged. The contribution of Shane Hawkins of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in this testing program by setting up and running some of the experiments is greatly appreciated. David Thomas of ORNL configured the hardware for coupling two servo-hydraulic machines and Donald Erdman of ORNL programmed the controls and established the initial experimental setup. The time spent by Hong Wang of ORNL in reviewing this report is also greatly appreciated. We would also like to acknowledge Richard Wright of INL for supplying the Alloy 617 materials to support the testing task of this work.

No abstract

No abstract