In situ microstructural evolution in face-centered and body-centered cubic complex concentrated solid-solution alloys under heavy ion irradiation

Parkin, Calvin; Moorehead, Michael; Elbakhshwan, Mohamed; Hu, Jing; Chen, Wei-Ying; Li, Meimei; He, Lingfeng; Sridharan, Kumar; Couet, Adrien

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2020.07.066

Title: In situ microstructural evolution in face-centered and body-centered cubic complex concentrated solid-solution alloys under heavy ion irradiation

Journal Article · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.07.066· OSTI ID:1776842

Parkin, Calvin ^[1]; Moorehead, Michael ^[1]; Elbakhshwan, Mohamed ^[1]; Hu, Jing ^[2]; Chen, Wei-Ying ^[2]; Li, Meimei ^[2]; He, Lingfeng ^[3]; Sridharan, Kumar ^[1]; Couet, Adrien ^[1]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

This study characterizes the microstructural evolution of single-phase complex concentrated solid-solution alloy (CSA) compositions under heavy ion irradiation with the goal of evaluating mechanisms for CSA radiation tolerance in advanced fission systems. Three such alloys, Cr₁₈Fe₂₇Mn₂₇Ni ₂₈, Cr₁₅Fe₃₅Mn₁₅Ni₃₅, and equimolar NbTaTiV, along with reference materials (pure Ni and E90 for the Cr-FeMnNi family and pure V for NbTaTiV) were irradiated at 50 K and 773 K with 1 MeV Kr⁺⁺ ions to various levels of displacements per atom (dpa) using in-situ transmission electron microscopy. Cryogenic irradiation resulted in small defect clusters and faulted dislocation loops as large as 12 nm in face-centered cubic (FCC) CSAs. With thermal diffusion suppressed at cryogenic temperatures, defect densities were lower in all CSAs than in their less compositionally complex reference materials indicating that point defect production is reduced during the displacement cascade stage. High temperature irradiation of the two FCC CSA resulted in the formation of interstitial dislocation loops which by 2 dpa grew to an average size of 27 nm in Cr₁₈Fe₂₇Mn₂₇Ni₂₈ and 10 nm in Cr₁₅Fe₃₅Mn₁₅Ni₃₅. This difference in loop growth kinetics was attributed to the difference in Mn-content due to its effect on the nucleation rate by increasing vacancy mobility or reducing the stacking-fault energy.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1776842

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1702249

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Vol. 198; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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