Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion

Henager, Jr., C. H.; Nguyen, Ba N.; Kurtz, Richard J.; Roosendaal, T. J.; Borlaug, B. A.; Ferraris, Monica; Ventrella, A.; Katoh, Yutai

doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.044

Title: Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion

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The international fusion community has designed a miniature torsion specimen for neutron irradiation studies of joined SiC and SiC/SiC composite materials. For this research, miniature torsion joints based on this specimen design were fabricated using displacement reactions between Si and TiC to produce Ti₃SiC₂ + SiC joints with SiC and tested in torsion-shear prior to and after neutron irradiation. However, many miniature torsion specimens fail out-of-plane within the SiC specimen body, which makes it problematic to assign a shear strength value to the joints and makes it difficult to compare unirradiated and irradiated strengths to determine irradiation effects. Finite element elastic damage and elastic–plastic damage models of miniature torsion joints are developed that indicate shear fracture is more likely to occur within the body of the joined sample and cause out-of-plane failures for miniature torsion specimens when a certain modulus and strength ratio between the joint material and the joined material exists. The model results are compared and discussed with regard to unirradiated and irradiated test data for a variety of joint materials. The unirradiated data includes Ti₃SiC₂ + SiC/CVD-SiC joints with tailored joint moduli, and includes steel/epoxy and CVD-SiC/epoxy joints. Finally, the implications for joint data based on thismore » sample design are discussed.« less

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Henager, Jr., C. H. ^[1]; Nguyen, Ba N. ^[1]; Kurtz, Richard J. ^[1]; Roosendaal, T. J. ^[1]; Borlaug, B. A. ^[1]; Ferraris, Monica ^[2]; Ventrella, A. ^[2]; Katoh, Yutai ^[3]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Polytechnic University of Turin, Torino (Italy)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1311255

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1252258

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC05-76RL01830; AC06-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Nuclear Materials

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 466; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; SiC; Fusion materials; Joining; Torsion; Damage model; Finite element

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                    Henager, Jr., C. H., Nguyen, Ba N., Kurtz, Richard J., Roosendaal, T. J., Borlaug, B. A., Ferraris, Monica, Ventrella, A., and Katoh, Yutai. Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Henager, Jr., C. H., Nguyen, Ba N., Kurtz, Richard J., Roosendaal, T. J., Borlaug, B. A., Ferraris, Monica, Ventrella, A., & Katoh, Yutai. Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.044

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                    Henager, Jr., C. H., Nguyen, Ba N., Kurtz, Richard J., Roosendaal, T. J., Borlaug, B. A., Ferraris, Monica, Ventrella, A., and Katoh, Yutai. Wed .  
"Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.044.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1311255.

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@article{osti_1311255,

  title        = {Modeling and testing miniature torsion specimens for SiC joining development studies for fusion},

  author       = {Henager, Jr., C. H. and Nguyen, Ba N. and Kurtz, Richard J. and Roosendaal, T. J. and Borlaug, B. A. and Ferraris, Monica and Ventrella, A. and Katoh, Yutai},

  abstractNote = {The international fusion community has designed a miniature torsion specimen for neutron irradiation studies of joined SiC and SiC/SiC composite materials. For this research, miniature torsion joints based on this specimen design were fabricated using displacement reactions between Si and TiC to produce Ti3SiC2 + SiC joints with SiC and tested in torsion-shear prior to and after neutron irradiation. However, many miniature torsion specimens fail out-of-plane within the SiC specimen body, which makes it problematic to assign a shear strength value to the joints and makes it difficult to compare unirradiated and irradiated strengths to determine irradiation effects. Finite element elastic damage and elastic–plastic damage models of miniature torsion joints are developed that indicate shear fracture is more likely to occur within the body of the joined sample and cause out-of-plane failures for miniature torsion specimens when a certain modulus and strength ratio between the joint material and the joined material exists. The model results are compared and discussed with regard to unirradiated and irradiated test data for a variety of joint materials. The unirradiated data includes Ti3SiC2 + SiC/CVD-SiC joints with tailored joint moduli, and includes steel/epoxy and CVD-SiC/epoxy joints. Finally, the implications for joint data based on this sample design are discussed.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.07.044},

  journal      = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 466,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015},

  month        = {Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015}

}

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