Evrard Lacroix

128 Hammond Building
University Park, PA 16802

eul152@psu.edu

Evrard Lacroix

Evrard Lacroix - Materials for Nuclear Power Group - Graduated with a Ph.D. in 2019

Evrard Lacroix completed his PhD in 2019. His research focused on the precipitation and dissolution of zirconium hydrides in zirconium alloys used for nuclear fuel cladding. He has performed in-situ characterization of hydride nucleation, growth and dissolution both using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. He then used the experimental results to develop the HNGD model that predicts both the behavior of hydrogen in solid solution in zirconium alloys as well as hydride precipitation and dissolution. He now works at Framatome in the Materials and Thermal-Mechanics department.