Effects of carbonitrides and carbides on microstructure and properties of castable nanostructured alloys
Abstract
In this work, to develop advanced reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic (RAFM) steels for fusion reactor structural applications, both carbonitride- and carbide-strengthened castable nanostructured alloys (CNAs) were explored for higher densities of MX (M = Ti/Ta/V/etc. and X = C/N) nanoprecipitates. Additionally, systematic comparisons between the two types of CNAs indicated generally similar microstructures and comparable tensile properties and creep resistance. However, the carbide-CNAs did show some advantages over the carbonitride-CNAs in terms of the uniformly distributed higher density of MC nanoprecipitates, greater Charpy impact upper shelf energies, less deuterium retention and swelling, and potentially less transmutation-induced composition changes and consequently thermodynamically more stable carbides. The carbide-CNAs showed the best-balanced high performance in the examined properties, in contrast to the significantly varied performance of oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloys and the generally lower performance of current RAFM steels.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1651337
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1640237
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 540; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; tensile; creep; charpy; transmutation; thermodynamics
Citation Formats
Tan, L., Graening, T., Hu, X., Zhong, W., Yang, Y., Zinkle, S. J., and Katoh, Y. Effects of carbonitrides and carbides on microstructure and properties of castable nanostructured alloys. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152376.
Tan, L., Graening, T., Hu, X., Zhong, W., Yang, Y., Zinkle, S. J., & Katoh, Y. Effects of carbonitrides and carbides on microstructure and properties of castable nanostructured alloys. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152376
Tan, L., Graening, T., Hu, X., Zhong, W., Yang, Y., Zinkle, S. J., and Katoh, Y. Wed .
"Effects of carbonitrides and carbides on microstructure and properties of castable nanostructured alloys". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152376. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1651337.
@article{osti_1651337,
title = {Effects of carbonitrides and carbides on microstructure and properties of castable nanostructured alloys},
author = {Tan, L. and Graening, T. and Hu, X. and Zhong, W. and Yang, Y. and Zinkle, S. J. and Katoh, Y.},
abstractNote = {In this work, to develop advanced reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic (RAFM) steels for fusion reactor structural applications, both carbonitride- and carbide-strengthened castable nanostructured alloys (CNAs) were explored for higher densities of MX (M = Ti/Ta/V/etc. and X = C/N) nanoprecipitates. Additionally, systematic comparisons between the two types of CNAs indicated generally similar microstructures and comparable tensile properties and creep resistance. However, the carbide-CNAs did show some advantages over the carbonitride-CNAs in terms of the uniformly distributed higher density of MC nanoprecipitates, greater Charpy impact upper shelf energies, less deuterium retention and swelling, and potentially less transmutation-induced composition changes and consequently thermodynamically more stable carbides. The carbide-CNAs showed the best-balanced high performance in the examined properties, in contrast to the significantly varied performance of oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloys and the generally lower performance of current RAFM steels.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152376},
journal = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},
number = ,
volume = 540,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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