Interactions between displacement cascade and dislocation and their influences on Peierls stress in Fe-20Cr-25Ni alloys
The interactions between dislocations and displacement cascades are investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. The primary knock-on atoms (PKAs) are placed at different distances to edge and screw dislocation lines. Specifically, an fcc Fe-20Cr-25Ni system is studied; the alloy is the based alloy for Alloy 709. The number of defects is calculated using Wigner-Seitz analysis in order to illustrate the effect of dislocations on cascades. The displacement cascades in systems containing dislocations tend to generate more total defects compared with bulk systems, but eventually lead to less surviving defects in the materials matrix due to interactions with dislocations. The changes in atomic structures of the dislocations after interacting with cascades are analyzed to understand how the primary damage affects dislocations. The displacement cascade potentially causes dislocation climb in edge dislocations and cross-slip in screw dislocations, which could serve as additional mechanisms contributing to the radiation-induced hardening (RIH) compared with conventional RIH models. To reveal this, Peierls stresses are calculated before and after cascades using molecular static simulations. As a result, this study provides critical information of how defect production and dislocations are correlated, especially when total dose is high, which needs to be taken into account in upper scale models, such as mean-field rate theory.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1492149
- Journal Information:
- Computational Materials Science, Journal Name: Computational Materials Science Journal Issue: C Vol. 160; ISSN 0927-0256
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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