The Void Specification

The purpose of this memo is to explore more fully the allowable void specification, in part to make it clearer to those doing the day-to-day evaluation and in part to help me understand the ramifications. A simulation of voids in a Be shell is used to support my understanding of Haan's analysis. The key results showing allowable void diameter as a function of void fraction are shown in Figure 6 (p. 8). What is important here is that generally in ''good'' samples we only see small voids, perhaps at most a few tenths of a {micro}m in size. For this void size the shells can be underdense by as much as 10% and still meet the 1 part in 10{sup 4} spec (though there may be other issues with reduced density).