Structure and mechanical properties of improved cast stainless steels for nuclear applications
Abstract
Casting of stainless steels is a promising and cost saving way of directly producing large and complex structures, such a shield modules or divertors for the ITER. Here, a series of modified high-nitrogen cast steels has been developed and characterized. The steels, based on the cast equivalent of 316 composition, have increased N (0.14-0.36%) and Mn (2-5.1%) content; copper was added to one of the heats. Mechanical tests were conducted with non-irradiated and neutron irradiated specimens at 0.7 dpa. It was established that alloying by nitrogen significantly improves the yield stress of non-irradiated steels and the deformation hardening rate. Manganese tended to decrease yield stress, but increased radiation hardening. Furthermore, the role of copper on mechanical properties was negligibly small. Analysis of structure was conducted using SEM-EDS and the nature and compositions of the second phases and inclusions were analyzed in detail. We show that the modified steels, compared to reference material, exhibit significantly reduced elemental inhomogeneity and second phase formation.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Nuclear Fuel and Isotopes Division
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1362206
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1396838
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 483; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
Citation Formats
Kenik, Edward A., Busby, Jeremy T., Gussev, Maxim N., Maziasz, Philip J., Hoelzer, David T., Rowcliffe, Arthur F., and Vitek, John M. Structure and mechanical properties of improved cast stainless steels for nuclear applications. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.045.
Kenik, Edward A., Busby, Jeremy T., Gussev, Maxim N., Maziasz, Philip J., Hoelzer, David T., Rowcliffe, Arthur F., & Vitek, John M. Structure and mechanical properties of improved cast stainless steels for nuclear applications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.045
Kenik, Edward A., Busby, Jeremy T., Gussev, Maxim N., Maziasz, Philip J., Hoelzer, David T., Rowcliffe, Arthur F., and Vitek, John M. Thu .
"Structure and mechanical properties of improved cast stainless steels for nuclear applications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.045. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1362206.
@article{osti_1362206,
title = {Structure and mechanical properties of improved cast stainless steels for nuclear applications},
author = {Kenik, Edward A. and Busby, Jeremy T. and Gussev, Maxim N. and Maziasz, Philip J. and Hoelzer, David T. and Rowcliffe, Arthur F. and Vitek, John M.},
abstractNote = {Casting of stainless steels is a promising and cost saving way of directly producing large and complex structures, such a shield modules or divertors for the ITER. Here, a series of modified high-nitrogen cast steels has been developed and characterized. The steels, based on the cast equivalent of 316 composition, have increased N (0.14-0.36%) and Mn (2-5.1%) content; copper was added to one of the heats. Mechanical tests were conducted with non-irradiated and neutron irradiated specimens at 0.7 dpa. It was established that alloying by nitrogen significantly improves the yield stress of non-irradiated steels and the deformation hardening rate. Manganese tended to decrease yield stress, but increased radiation hardening. Furthermore, the role of copper on mechanical properties was negligibly small. Analysis of structure was conducted using SEM-EDS and the nature and compositions of the second phases and inclusions were analyzed in detail. We show that the modified steels, compared to reference material, exhibit significantly reduced elemental inhomogeneity and second phase formation.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.10.045},
journal = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},
number = C,
volume = 483,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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