On the mobility of defect clusters and their effect on microstructure evolution in fcc Ni under irradiation

Osetsky, Yuri N.; Barashev, Alexander V.; Zhang, Yanwen

doi:10.1016/j.mtla.2018.09.028

Title: On the mobility of defect clusters and their effect on microstructure evolution in fcc Ni under irradiation

Abstract

Here, µs-scale molecular dynamics studies of vacancy and interstitial clusters in fcc Ni revealed three- and one- dimensional (3-D and 1-D) modes of the cluster motion. The 1-D mobility of interstitial defects is known to enhance swelling rate. The theoretical analysis performed here suggests two novel mechanism by which the 3-D mobile clusters affect microstructure evolution under irradiation. First, the mobility of vacancy clusters hinders nucleation of stable voids due to recombination with interstitial-type loops and edge dislocations. Second, the capture efficiency of dislocations is higher for 3-D mobile vacancy and interstitial clusters than single defects, with the combined effect depending on relative fractions of clustered vacancies and interstitials produced in cascades. The observed differences in radiation damage of most fcc and bcc metals is attributed to the difference in cascade-produced vacancy defects: immobile SFTs and loops in fcc metals and mobile clusters in bcc metals. In this context, fcc Ni is similar to bcc metals due to its high stacking fault energy.

Authors:

^[1]; Barashev, Alexander V. ^[2];

^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-09-25

Research Org.:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1493149

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Materialia

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2589-1529

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Vacancies; Interstitials; Diffusion; Molecular dynamics; Ni; Irradiation effects

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                    Osetsky, Yuri N., Barashev, Alexander V., and Zhang, Yanwen. On the mobility of defect clusters and their effect on microstructure evolution in fcc Ni under irradiation.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Osetsky, Yuri N., Barashev, Alexander V., & Zhang, Yanwen. On the mobility of defect clusters and their effect on microstructure evolution in fcc Ni under irradiation.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2018.09.028

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@article{osti_1493149,

  title        = {On the mobility of defect clusters and their effect on microstructure evolution in fcc Ni under irradiation},

  author       = {Osetsky, Yuri N. and Barashev, Alexander V. and Zhang, Yanwen},

  abstractNote = {Here, µs-scale molecular dynamics studies of vacancy and interstitial clusters in fcc Ni revealed three- and one- dimensional (3-D and 1-D) modes of the cluster motion. The 1-D mobility of interstitial defects is known to enhance swelling rate. The theoretical analysis performed here suggests two novel mechanism by which the 3-D mobile clusters affect microstructure evolution under irradiation. First, the mobility of vacancy clusters hinders nucleation of stable voids due to recombination with interstitial-type loops and edge dislocations. Second, the capture efficiency of dislocations is higher for 3-D mobile vacancy and interstitial clusters than single defects, with the combined effect depending on relative fractions of clustered vacancies and interstitials produced in cascades. The observed differences in radiation damage of most fcc and bcc metals is attributed to the difference in cascade-produced vacancy defects: immobile SFTs and loops in fcc metals and mobile clusters in bcc metals. In this context, fcc Ni is similar to bcc metals due to its high stacking fault energy.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.mtla.2018.09.028},

  journal      = {Materialia},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 4,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {9}

}

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Fig. 1: Time dependence of atomic square displacements created by migration of a single SIA and two to six SIA clusters at temperatures of 500, 600 and 900K.

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