Recent progress in the assessment of irradiation effects for in-vessel fusion materials: Tungsten and copper alloys

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Terentyev ◽  
Michael Rieth ◽  
Gerald Pintsuk ◽  
Johann Riesch ◽  
Alexander Von Muller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Copper Alloys ◽  
Fusion Energy ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Operation Temperature ◽  
Plasma Facing Components

Abstract The present contribution highlights results of the recent irradiation campaigns applied to screen mechanical properties of advanced tungsten and copper-based materials – main candidates for the application in the plasma-facing components (PFC) in the European DEMO, which has also been presented at 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. The main challenges in the formulated irradiation programme were linked to: (I) assessment of the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) of newly developed tungsten-based materials; (ii) investigation of an industrial pure tungsten grade under high temperature irradiation, reflecting operational conditions in the high flux divertor region; (iii) assessment of the high temperature strength of CuCrZr-based alloys and composites developed to enable the extension of the operational window for the heat sink materials. The development and choice of the advanced materials is driven naturally by the need to extend the operation temperature/fluence window thereby enlarging the design space for PFCs. The obtained results helped identifying the prospective tungsten and copper-based material grades as well as yielded a number of unexpected results pointing at severe degradation of the mechanical properties due to the irradiation. The results are discussed along with the highlights of the microstructural examination. An outlook for near future investigations involving in-depth post-irradiation examination and further irradiation campaigns is provided.

Lattice Imaging of Grain Boundaries in Ceramics

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
D. R. Clarke ◽  
G. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Silicon Nitride ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Lattice Imaging ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Structural Applications ◽  
Refractory Ceramics

Grain boundaries have long held a special significance to ceramicists. In part, this has been because it has been impossible until now to actually observe the boundaries themselves. Just as important, however, is the fact that the grain boundaries and their environs have a determing influence on both the mechanisms by which powder compaction occurs during fabrication, and on the overall mechanical properties of the material. One area where the grain boundary plays a particularly important role is in the high temperature strength of hot-pressed ceramics. This is a subject of current interest as extensive efforts are being made to develop ceramics, such as silicon nitride alloys, for high temperature structural applications. In this presentation we describe how the techniques of lattice fringe imaging have made it possible to study the grain boundaries in a number of refractory ceramics, and illustrate some of the findings.

scholarly journals The Influence of La and Ce on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of an Al-Si-Cu-Mg-Fe Alloy at High Temperature

Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 384
Author(s):  
Andong Du ◽  
Anders E. W. Jarfors ◽  
Jinchuan Zheng ◽  
Kaikun Wang ◽  
Gegang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Tensile Strength ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Intermetallic Phases ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Thermal Expansion Mismatch ◽  
Strengthening Mechanisms ◽  
High Temperature Mechanical Properties ◽  
Minor Contribution ◽  
A Minor

The effect of lanthanum (La)+cerium (Ce) addition on the high-temperature strength of an aluminum (Al)–silicon (Si)–copper (Cu)–magnesium (Mg)–iron (Fe)–manganese (Mn) alloy was investigated. A great number of plate-like intermetallics, Al11(Ce, La)3- and blocky α-Al15(Fe, Mn)3Si2-precipitates, were observed. The results showed that the high-temperature mechanical properties depended strongly on the amount and morphology of the intermetallic phases formed. The precipitated tiny Al11(Ce, La)3 and α-Al15(Fe, Mn)3Si2 both contributed to the high-temperature mechanical properties, especially at 300 °C and 400 °C. The formation of coarse plate-like Al11(Ce, La)3, at the highest (Ce-La) additions, reduced the mechanical properties at (≤300) ℃ and improved the properties at 400 ℃. Analysis of the strengthening mechanisms revealed that the load-bearing mechanism was the main contributing mechanism with no contribution from thermal-expansion mismatch effects. Strain hardening had a minor contribution to the tensile strength at high-temperature.

Deterioration of Local Mechanical Properties of HVOF-Sprayed Stellite 6 after Exposure to High-Temperature Corrosion

2015 ◽  
Vol 662 ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Česánek ◽  
Jan Schubert ◽  
Šárka Houdková ◽  
Olga Bláhová ◽  
Michaela Prantnerová
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Corrosion ◽  
Corrosion Testing ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Coating Properties ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Stellite 6 ◽  
Coating Surface ◽  
Before And After

Coating properties determine its behavior in operation. The simulation of future operational conditions is therefore the best quality test. The evaluation during operation is usually not possible to perform, and the coatings are therefore frequently characterized by their physical or mechanical properties. This text deals with the high temperature corrosion of HVOF sprayed Stellite 6 coating and with changes of its local mechanical properties before and after the corrosion testing. High temperature corrosion is defined as a corrosion in the presence of molten salts. In this case, the mixture of salts in composition of 59% Na2(SO)4 with 34.5% KCl and 6.5% NaCl was used. Two exposure temperatures 525 °C and 575 °C were selected and the tests for both temperatures were performed in the time interval of 168h in the autoclave. The coating with salt mixture layer was analyzed using scanning electron microscopy and nanoindentation. The high temperature resistance of Stellite 6 coating was evaluated according to the changes in the coating surface and by the occurrence of individual phases formed on the coating surface during the test. Generally, it can be said that the Stellite 6 alloys deposited by HVOF technology show selective oxidation under the salt film. This fact was also proved in this study. Furthermore, the nanoindentation measurements of Stellite 6 coating were performed before and after the corrosion testing. These measurements were used to evaluate the change of local mechanical coating properties.

Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of the Newly Developed Steel (Low C 18Cr-11Ni-3Cu-Mo-Nb-B-N) After Aging Treatment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nao Otaki ◽  
Tomoaki Hamaguchi ◽  
Takahiro Osuki ◽  
Yuhei Suzuki ◽  
Masaki Ueyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Vickers Hardness ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Rupture Strength ◽  
Aging Treatment ◽  
High Strength ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Rich Phase

Abstract In petroleum refinery plants, materials with high sensitization resistance are required. 347AP has particularly been developed for such applications and shows good sensitization resistance owing to its low C content. However, further improvement in high temperature strength is required for high temperature operations in complex refineries, such as delayed cokers. Recently, a new austenitic stainless steel (low C 18Cr-11Ni-3Cu-Mo-Nb-B-N, UNS No. S34752) with high sensitization resistance and high strength at elevated temperatures has been developed. In this study, the mechanical properties and microstructures of several aged specimens will be reported. By conducting several aging heat treatments in the range of 550–750 °C for 300–10,000 h on the developed steel, it was revealed that there were only few coarse precipitates that assumed sigma phase even after aging at 750 °C for 10,000 h. This indicates that the newly developed steel has superior phase stability. The developed steel drastically increased its Vickers hardness by short-term aging treatments. Through transmission electron microscopy observations, the fine precipitates of Cu-rich phase were observed dispersedly in the ruptured specimen. Therefore, the increase in Vickers hardness in short-term aging is possibly owing to the dispersed precipitation of Cu-rich phase. There was further increase in Vickers hardness owing to Z phase precipitation; however, the increment was smaller than that caused by Cu-rich phase. The newly developed alloy demonstrated excellent creep rupture strength even in the long-term tests of approximately 30,000 h, which is attributed to these precipitates.

Influence of Al-Cu-Mn-Fe-Ti Alloy Composition and Production Parameters of Extruded Semi-Finished Products on their Structure and Mechanical Properties

2017 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 456-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.L. Reznik ◽  
Mikhail Lobanov
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Ti Alloy ◽  
Low Temperature Annealing ◽  
Annealing Conditions ◽  
Concentration Changes

Studies have been conducted as to the effect of Cu, Mn, Fe concentration changes in Al-Cu-Mn-Fe-Ti alloy, the conditions of thermal and deformational treatment of ingots and extruded rods 40 mm in diameter on the microstructure, phase composition and mechanical properties. It has been determined that changing Al-6.3Cu-0.3Mn-0.17Fe-0.15Ti alloy to Al-6.5Cu-0.7Mn-0.11Fe-0.15Ti causes an increase in the strength characteristics of extruded rods at the room temperature both after molding and in tempered and aged conditions, irrespective of the conditions of thermal treatment of the initial ingot (low-temperature annealing 420 °С for 2 h, or high-temperature annealing at 530 °С for 12 h). Increasing the extruding temperature from 330 to 480 °С, along with increasing Cu, Mn and decreasing Fe in the alloy Al-Cu-Mn-Ti, is accompanied by the increased level of ultimate strength in a quenched condition by 25% to 410 MPa, irrespective of the annealing conditions of the original ingot. An opportunity to apply the Al-6.3Cu-0.3Mn-0.17Fe-0.15Ti alloy with low-temperature annealing at 420 °С for 2 h and the molding temperature of 330 °С has been found to produce rods where, in the condition of full thermal treatment (tempering at 535 °С + aging at 200 °С for 8 hours), a structure is formed that ensures satisfactory characteristics of high temperature strength by resisting to fracture for more than 100 hours at 300 °С and 70 MPa.

Predicting the influence of structure factors on the mechanical properties of high-temperature strength alloys

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 387-392
Author(s):  
A. V. Logunov ◽  
N. V. Petrushin ◽  
E. A. Kuleshova ◽  
Yu. M. Dolzhanskii
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Structure Factors

Deformation of an extruded nickel beryllide between room temperature and 820 °C

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2653-2659 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. Pharr ◽  
S.V. Courington ◽  
J. Wadsworth ◽  
T.G. Nieh
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Flow Stress ◽  
Strain Hardening ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
High Temperature Strength ◽  
Compression Tests ◽  
Tension And Compression ◽  
Better Than

The mechanical properties of nickel beryllide, NiBe, have been investigated in the temperature range 20–820 °C. The room temperature properties were studied using tension, bending, and compression tests, while the elevated temperature properties were characterized in compression only. NiBe exhibits some ductility at room temperature; the strains to failure in tension and compression are 1.3% and 13%, respectively. Fracture is controlled primarily by the cohesive strength of grain boundaries. At high temperatures, NiBe is readily deformable—strains in excess of 30% can be achieved at temperatures as low as 400 °C. Strain hardening rates are high, and the flow stress decreases monotonically with temperature. The high temperature strength of NiBe is as good or better than that of NiAl, but not quite as good as CoAl.

Textile preforms for tungsten fibre-reinforced composites

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (28) ◽  
pp. 3875-3884 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Gietl ◽  
A v Müller ◽  
JW Coenen ◽  
M Decius ◽  
D Ewert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Copper Alloys ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Optimum Operating ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Thermomechanical Characteristics ◽  
Plasma Facing Components ◽  
Tungsten Filaments ◽  
Braiding Angle

Demanding high heat flux applications, as for example plasma-facing components of future nuclear fusion devices, ask for the development of advanced materials. For such components, copper alloys are currently regarded as heat sink materials while monolithic tungsten is foreseen as directly plasma-facing material. However, the combination of these materials in one component is problematic since they exhibit different thermomechanical characteristics and their optimum operating temperatures do not overlap. In this context, an improvement can be achieved by applying composite materials that make use of drawn tungsten fibres as reinforcement. For the manufacturing processes of these composites, suitable tungsten fibre preform production methods are needed. In the following, we will show that tungsten fibres can be processed to suitable preforms by means of well-established textile techniques as studies regarding the production of planar weavings (wire distances of 90–271 µm), circular braidings (multilayered braidings with braiding angle of 60° and 12°) as well as multifilamentary yarns (15 tungsten filaments with 16 µm diameter) are presented. With such different textile preforms tungsten fibre-reinforced tungsten (W f/W) with a density of over 99% and pore-free tungsten fibre-reinforced copper W f/Cu composites were produced which proves their applicability with respect to a composite material production processes.

Study on Morph-Genetic Materials Derived from Natural Structure

2005 ◽  
Vol 502 ◽  
pp. 373-378
Author(s):  
Di Zhang ◽  
Tong Xiang Fan ◽  
Bing He Sun ◽  
Tian Chi Wang ◽  
Xian Qing Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Molten Metal ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
Materials Processing ◽  
Interpenetrating Networks ◽  
Natural Structure ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
Use Values ◽  
Natural Plants

Synthesis of morph-genetic materials derived from biological structures by rapid, high temperature conversion represents a novel technology of advanced materials processing. The resulting morph-genetic materials exhibit unique macro- and microscopic cellular morphologies. In addition, based on the porous character of some natural plants, there is a further possibility of compounding the resulting morph-genetic materials with molten metal or polymer to produce morph-genetic composites with interpenetrating networks. Thus, the morph-genetic materials will be endowed with new use values, such as good mechanical properties, and friction behaviors, etc.

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