[HTML][HTML] The effect of hot rolling on the strength and fracture toughness of 90W–7Ni3Fe tungsten heavy metal alloys

ME Alam, J Wang, CH Henager Jr, W Setyawan… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to their balance of strength, ductility and toughness, liquid-phase sintered tungsten
heavy metal alloys (WHAs) are considered to be an attractive alternative to monolithic …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the Fracture Toughness and Ductility of Liquid-Phase Sintered WNiFe Tungsten Heavy Alloys by High-Temperature Annealing

ME Alam, GR Odette - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tungsten heavy alloys (WHAs) are candidates for use in fusion reactor divertors. Here, we
characterize liquid-phase sintered WHAs with 90, 92.5, 95, and 97 (wt.%) tungsten (W), with …

Onset of fuzz formation in plasma-facing tungsten as a surface morphological instability

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, RD Kolasinski, BD Wirth… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Based on simulation results and theoretical analysis according to an atomistically informed
continuum-scale model for the surface morphological response of tungsten plasma-facing …

[HTML][HTML] The comparative strength and fracture toughness properties of commercial 95W-3.5 Ni1. 5Fe and 95W-3.5 Ni1. 5Cu tungsten heavy alloys

ME Alam, GR Odette - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the sharp surface cracks resulting from high and cyclic thermal loads, fracture
toughness is a crucial property for fusion divertor materials. Tungsten heavy alloys (WHA) …

Molecular-Dynamics Analysis of the Mechanical Behavior of Plasma-Facing Tungsten

A Weerasinghe, E Martinez, BD Wirth… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a systematic computational analysis of the mechanical behavior of plasma-facing
component (PFC) tungsten focusing on the impact of void and helium (He) bubble defects …

Effects of elastic softening and helium accumulation kinetics on surface morphological evolution of plasma-facing tungsten

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, A Weerasinghe, BD Wirth… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Based on a continuous-domain model, capable of accessing the spatiotemporal scales
relevant to fuzz formation on the surface of plasma-facing component (PFC) tungsten, we …

Effects of surface vacancy-adatom pair formation on PFC tungsten surface morphological response

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, A Weerasinghe… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a simulation study of the effect of He-irradiation-induced surface vacancy-adatom
pair formation on the surface morphological evolution of plasma-facing component (PFC) …

Diffusion-assisted growth of periodic patterns on metal surfaces

W Qian, P Zheng, N Gao, W Setyawan, P Chen, X Liu… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Periodic patterns formed on various solid surfaces could seriously affect the properties of
materials. Understanding the underlying mechanism is a key step to apply and control …

[HTML][HTML] Hole formation effect on surface morphological response of plasma-facing tungsten

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, BD Wirth… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report simulation results on the effect of helium (He) bubble bursting-mediated surface
hole formation on the surface morphological response of tungsten plasma-facing …

An improved model for the prediction of He bubbles driven W fuzz growth at different temperatures

W Liu, C Niu, H Fan, W Ni, Y Zhang, D Liu - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on our previous study (J. Nucl. Mater. 550 (2021) 152917), an improved model used
to predict the W fuzz growth over W targets is presented by considering the complex physical …