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Title: Radiation instability of equal channel angular extruded T91 at ultra-high damage levels

Abstract

Although several studies have shown that nano-grained alloys have higher radiation resistance than coarse-grained variants, with dense grain boundary structures acting as defect sinks to remove damage, the present study shows the failure of severe deformation to suppress void swelling in T91 alloy at ultra-high damage levels. Fe self-ion irradiation up to 1000 peak dpa produced significantly more swelling in extruded T91 than conventional T91 at 475 °C. Dramatic radiation-enhanced grain growth was observed in the extruded T91, manifested in two rapid grain growth stages. One stage occurs at a relatively low damage level, and the other at a higher damage level beyond 750 peak dpa. The second rapid growth stage is correlated with void swelling and starts at the end of the swelling incubation period. The study suggests that the defect sink properties of the growing grain boundaries under a coarsening process are different from that of stable boundary configurations. When void swelling becomes significant and voids act as a biased sink for vacancies, the growing grain boundaries act as a biased sink for interstitials, leading to rapid growth at higher damage levels.

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  1. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  2. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Radiation Effects Consulting, Richland, WA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Texas A & M Engineering Experiment Station
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
OSTI Identifier:
1533475
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1550497
Grant/Contract Number:  
NE0008297
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Acta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 132; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Materials Science; Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering; Ion irradiation; Equal channel angular extrusion; High dpa; Grain coarsening

Citation Formats

Gigax, Jonathan G., Kim, Hyosim, Chen, Tianyi, Garner, F. A., and Shao, Lin. Radiation instability of equal channel angular extruded T91 at ultra-high damage levels. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.038.
Gigax, Jonathan G., Kim, Hyosim, Chen, Tianyi, Garner, F. A., & Shao, Lin. Radiation instability of equal channel angular extruded T91 at ultra-high damage levels. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.038
Gigax, Jonathan G., Kim, Hyosim, Chen, Tianyi, Garner, F. A., and Shao, Lin. Tue . "Radiation instability of equal channel angular extruded T91 at ultra-high damage levels". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.038. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1533475.
@article{osti_1533475,
title = {Radiation instability of equal channel angular extruded T91 at ultra-high damage levels},
author = {Gigax, Jonathan G. and Kim, Hyosim and Chen, Tianyi and Garner, F. A. and Shao, Lin},
abstractNote = {Although several studies have shown that nano-grained alloys have higher radiation resistance than coarse-grained variants, with dense grain boundary structures acting as defect sinks to remove damage, the present study shows the failure of severe deformation to suppress void swelling in T91 alloy at ultra-high damage levels. Fe self-ion irradiation up to 1000 peak dpa produced significantly more swelling in extruded T91 than conventional T91 at 475 °C. Dramatic radiation-enhanced grain growth was observed in the extruded T91, manifested in two rapid grain growth stages. One stage occurs at a relatively low damage level, and the other at a higher damage level beyond 750 peak dpa. The second rapid growth stage is correlated with void swelling and starts at the end of the swelling incubation period. The study suggests that the defect sink properties of the growing grain boundaries under a coarsening process are different from that of stable boundary configurations. When void swelling becomes significant and voids act as a biased sink for vacancies, the growing grain boundaries act as a biased sink for interstitials, leading to rapid growth at higher damage levels.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.038},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 132,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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