Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
Volume 97, Issue 23, Pages 2018-2051Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786435.2017.1324648
Keywords
Irradiation growth; irradiation creep; Zirconium; plasticity of crystals; dislocation mechanics; modelling
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- Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactor (CASL), an Energy Innovation Hub under US Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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A physically based reaction-diffusion model is implemented in the visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) crystal plasticity framework to simulate irradiation growth in hcp Zr and its alloys. The reaction-diffusion model accounts for the defects produced by the cascade of displaced atoms, their diffusion to lattice sinks and the contribution to crystallographic strain at the level of single crystals. The VPSC framework accounts for intergranular interactions and irradiation creep, and calculates the strain in the polycrystalline ensemble. A novel scheme is proposed to model the simultaneous evolution of both, number density and radius, of irradiation-induced dislocation loops directly from experimental data of dislocation density evolution during irradiation. This framework is used to predict the irradiation growth behaviour of cold-worked Zircaloy-2 and trends compared to available experimental data. The role of internal stresses in inducing irradiation creep is discussed. Effects of grain size, texture and external stress on the coupled irradiation growth and creep behaviour are also studied and compared with available experimental data.
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