Hardening of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels under the irradiation of high-energy heavy-ion

Ding Zhao-Nan; Yang Yi-Tao; Song Yin; Zhang Li-Qing; Gou Jie; Zhang Chong-Hong; Luo Guang-Nan

doi:10.7498/aps.66.112501

Abstract

In order to study the irradiation responses of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels which are candidates for fusion reactors, a reduced activation steel is irradiated at a terminal of HIRFL (heavy ion research facility in Lanzhou) with 63 MeV 14N ions and 336 MeV 56Fe ions at -50 ℃. The energies of the incident N/Fe ions are varied from 0.22 MeV/u to 6.17 MeV/u by using an energy degrader at the terminal, so that a plateau region of an atomic displacement damage (0.05-0.2 dpa) is obtained from the near surface to a depth of 24 μm in the specimens. Nanoindentation technique is used to investigate the nano-hardness changes of the samples before and after irradiation. The constant stiffness measurement is used to obtain the depth profile of hardness. The Nix-Gao model taking account of the indentation size effect (ISE) is used to fit the measured hardness and thus a hardness value excluding ISE is obtained. Consequently, the soft substrate effect for lower energy ion irradiation is effectively avoided. It is observed that there seems to be a power function relationship between the hardness and damage for the RAFM steel. The hardness initially increases significantly with the increase of irradiation damage, then increases slowly when the damage reaches to about 0.2 dpa. Positron annihilation is performed to investigate the defect evolution in the material. The positron annihilation lifetime spectra show that the long-lifetime proportion of the RAFM steel increases significantly after being irradiated. This means vacancy clusters are produced by the irradiation, resulting in the change of mechanics property. Even at low irradiation dose, point defects with high density are generated in the steel specimens, and subsequently aggregate into defect clusters, thereby suppressing the dislocation slip.The defect concentration in the material increases continuously with the increase of irradiation damage, which leads to the obvious irradiation hardening phenomenon. When the damage is higher than 0.1 dpa, the increment of mean lifetime gradually decreases due to the existence of a large number of vacancies and dislocations, and it eventually tends to be saturated, which explains why the irradiation hardening increment rate decreases with the increase of irradiation damage in the material.

Keywords:

reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel /
N/Fe-ions irradiation /
hardening /
vacancy clusters

Authors and contacts

1.
Institution of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
2.
Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

Corresponding author: Zhang Chong-Hong, c.h.zhang@impcas.ac.cn

Funds: Project supported by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1532262) and the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Program, China (Grant No. 2011GB108003).

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