Irradiation hardening of pure tungsten exposed to neutron irradiation

Hu, Xunxiang; Koyanagi, Takaaki; Fukuda, Makoto; Kumar, N. A. P.  Kiran; Snead, Lance L.; Wirth, Brian D.; Katoh, Yutai

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.08.024

Irradiation hardening of pure tungsten exposed to neutron irradiation

Journal Article · Fri Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Nuclear Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.08.024· OSTI ID:1327659

Hu, Xunxiang ^[1]; Koyanagi, Takaaki ^[1]; Fukuda, Makoto ^[2]; Kumar, N. A. P. Kiran ^[1]; Snead, Lance L. ^[3]; Wirth, Brian D. ^[4]; Katoh, Yutai ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

In this paper, pure tungsten samples have been neutron irradiated in HFIR at 90–850 °C to 0.03–2.2 dpa. A dispersed barrier hardening model informed by the available microstructure data has been used to predict the hardness. Comparison of the model predictions and the measured Vickers hardness reveals the dominant hardening contribution at various irradiation conditions. For tungsten samples irradiated in HFIR, the results indicate that voids and dislocation loops contributed to the hardness increase in the low dose region (<0.3 dpa), while the formation of intermetallic second phase precipitation, resulting from transmutation, dominates the radiation-induced strengthening beginning with a relatively modest dose (>0.6 dpa). Finally, the precipitate contribution is most pronounced for the HFIR irradiations, whereas the radiation-induced defect cluster microstructure can rationalize the entirety of the hardness increase observed in tungsten irradiated in the fast neutron spectrum of Joyo and the mixed neutron spectrum of JMTR.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Inst. for Fusion Science (Japan); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (SC-24)

Contributing Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; SC0006661

OSTI ID:: 1327659

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1398842

Journal Information:: Journal of Nuclear Materials, Journal Name: Journal of Nuclear Materials Vol. 480; ISSN 0022-3115

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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