Atomic scale modeling of defect production and microstructure evolution in irradiated metals
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); and others
Irradiation effects in materials depend in a complex way on the form of the as-produced primary damage state and its spatial and temporal evolution. Thus, while collision cascades produce defects on a time scale of tens of picosecond, diffusion occurs over much longer time scales, of the order of seconds, and microstructure evolution over even longer time scales. In this report the authors present work aimed at describing damage production and evolution in metals across all the relevant time and length scales. They discuss results of molecular dynamics simulations of displacement cascades in Fe and V. They show that interstitial clusters are produced in cascades above 5 keV, but not vacancy clusters. Next, they discuss the development of a kinetic Monte Carlo model that enables calculations of damage evolution over much longer time scales (1000`s of s) than the picosecond lifetime of the cascade. They demonstrate the applicability of the method by presenting predictions on the fraction of freely migrating defects in {alpha}Fe during irradiation at 600 K.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 543299
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER--0313/21; ON: DE97008798
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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