Journal
MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110588
Keywords
Phase stability; Irradiation effect; Ion irradiation; Austenitic stainless steels; Atom-probe tomography
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- Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0006661]
- University of Tennessee
- UT-Battelle, LLC [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP)
- Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) [t DE-NE0008520]
- Integrated University Program Graduate Fellowship
- Graduate Advanced Training and Education (GATE) program of the University of Tennessee (SML)
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This study investigated the stability of different solute nanoclusters during radiation and found that they have distinct ballistic dissolution susceptibilities. The results also demonstrated the importance of solute concentration gradient in recovering from ballistic dissolution.
Disruption of phase stability by energetic particle bombardment is a major challenge in designing advanced radiation-tolerant alloys and ion beam processing of nanocomposites. Particularly, ballistic dissolution susceptibility of different solute nanocluster species in alloys is poorly understood. Here, low dose rate neutron irradiations were conducted on a Fe-Cr-Ni based austenitic steel in the BOR-60 reactor (9.4 x 10(-7) dpa/s, 318 degrees C) followed by accelerated dose rate ion irradiations at multiple temperatures (similar to 10(-3) dpa/s, 380 - 420 degrees C). Using atom probe tomography, the stability of radiation-enhanced Cu-rich and radiation-induced Ni-Si-Mn-rich nanoclusters was evaluated. During neutron irradiation, Cu-rich clusters nucleated with their core concentrations progressively increasing with dose, while Ni-Si-Mn-rich clusters formed and evolved into G-phase precipitates. Ion irradiations dramatically altered the nanoclusters. Cu-rich clusters were ballistically dissolved, but Ni-Si-Mn-rich clusters remained stable and coarsened with dose at 400 and 420 degrees C, highlighting that different nanocluster species in a single microstructure can have innately distinct ballistic dissolution susceptibilities. Solute-specific recoil rates were incorporated into the Heinig precipitate stability model, which shows that in addition to radiation-enhanced diffusion, recovery from ballistic dissolution depends on solute concentration gradient near cluster interfaces. The combined experimental-modeling study quantified the critical temperatures and damage rates where ballistic dissolution dominates for each cluster species. (C) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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