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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 367, Issue -, Pages 48-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2007.03.001
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For increased fusion power plant efficiency, steels for operation at 650 degrees C and higher are sought. Based on the science of precipitate strengthening, a thermo-mechanical treatment (TMT) was developed that increased the strength from room temperature to 700 degrees C of commercial nitrogen-containing steels and new steels designed for the TMT. At 700 degrees C increases in yield stress of 80 and 200% were observed for a commercial steel and a new steel, respectively, compared to commercial normalized-and-tempered steels. Creep-rupture strength was similarly improved. Depending on the TMT, precipitates were up to eight-times smaller at a number density four orders of magnitude greater than those in a conventionally heat treated steel of similar composition. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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