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Bridging microscale to macroscale mechanical property measurements of FeCrAl alloys by crystal plasticity modeling

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Volume 165, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2023.103608

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FeCrAl alloys; irradiation; in-situ compression; crystal plasticity

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A microstructure- and temperature-dependent crystal plasticity model is used to understand the mechanical properties of FeCrAl alloys. The model considers the temperature-dependent frictional resistance and microstructure-dependent irradiation hardening. The results provide insights into the thermo-mechanical behavior of unirradiated/irradiated FeCrAl alloys.
FeCrAl alloys are candidates for accident tolerant fuel cladding of light water reactors. In this work, a microstructure- and temperature-dependent crystal plasticity model is employed to bridge microscale to macroscale mechanical property measurements of FeCrAl alloys. With the visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) polycrystal plasticity framework, a mechanism-based single crystal plasticity (MSCP) model adopts the Arrhenius type rate equation to describe the dependence of the critical resolved shear stress for dislocation slips on their temperature-dependent intrinsic frictional resistance and the microstructure-dependent irradiation hardening. The intrinsic frictional resistance associated with {110}< 111 > and {112}< 111 > slip systems were measured by in-situ micromechanical testing on unirradiated/irradiated samples at 25-500 degrees C. The irradiation hardening is estimated by the Bacon-Kocks-Scattergood (BKS) model with density and size of radiation-induced defects measured from microstructural characterization. Several features associated with thermo-mechanical behavior of unirradiated/irradiated polycrystalline FeCrAl alloys are captured. High density of deformation-induced dislocations and radiationinduced defects results in obvious hardening at room temperature, which is weakened at high temperature, and facilitates damage evolution during deformation. Moreover, both high temperature and radiation-induced defects, which facilitate dislocation multiplication, trigger large hardening rate. The proposed method together with application of accelerator-based ion irradiation technique is a surrogate approach to simulate neutron damage, improving the efficiency associated with evaluation of mechanical properties of FeCrAl alloys exposed to temperature, stress and radiation conditions.

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