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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 432, Issue 1-3, Pages 102-112Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2012.07.025
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- Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
- MoD in the UK [EP/E036171/1]
- EDF
- National Nuclear Laboratory
- Rolls-Royce
- Serco
- Westinghouse
- EPSRC [EP/H020047/1, EP/I005420/1, EP/E036171/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I005420/1, EP/H020047/1, EP/E036171/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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To improve the understanding of the oxidation mechanism in zirconium alloys for fuel clad applications, detailed residual stress and phase fraction analysis was carried out for the oxides formed on Zircaloy-4 after autoclave exposure at 360 degrees C for various times by means of synchrotron X-ray diffraction. In a post-transition sample (220 days), significant stress variation through the oxide thickness was found for the monoclinic phase in individual oxide layers, with maximum in-plane compressive stresses located towards the metal-oxide interface and a discontinuity in the residual stress profile. The depth of this discontinuity matched well with the depth at which electron microscopy analysis showed an interface between two distinct oxide layers. Analysis of the tetragonal phase with exposure time demonstrated changes of the total volume of tetragonal phase before and during transition. These observations are put into the context of residual stress evolution presented previously, to provide further insight into the importance of phase transformations and residual stresses in determining the corrosion kinetics of Zr alloys. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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