Environmental degradation of structural materials in liquid lead-and lead-bismuth eutectic-cooled reactors

X Gong, MP Short, T Auger… - Progress in materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liquid lead (Pb)-and lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE)-cooled fast neutron reactors (Gen-IV
LFRs) are one of the most technologically mature fission reactor technologies, due to their …

Recent advancements in manganese steels–A review

R Jacob, SR Sankaranarayanan, SPK Babu - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews the current state of the art in understanding manganese steels. The
standard manganese steel (Hadfield's Manganese) has roughly 12% manganese and 1.2 …

A review of recent advances in the understanding of liquid metal embrittlement

DG Kolman - Corrosion, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Significant advances in the study of liquid metal embrittlement have occurred since 2000 but
there have been few reviews of the liquid metal embrittlement literature since that time. This …

New insights into oxidation mechanism and kinetics of 9Cr–1Mo ferritic-martensitic steel in oxygen-saturated liquid lead-bismuth eutectic

Z Zhou, C Tian, J Du, X Peng, Y Liu, X Yu, X Mi… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The evolution of oxide scales on a 9Cr–1Mo ferritic-martensitic steel (T91) in oxygen-
saturated liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) at 500° C is investigated. While taken out at …

Embrittlement of a zinc coated high manganese TWIP steel

C Beal, X Kleber, D Fabregue, M Bouzekri - Materials Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The liquid metal embrittlement (LME) of a high manganese austenitic TWIP steel was
investigated by hot tensile testing of zinc coated specimens using Gleeble® thermo …

Influence of liquid lead and lead–bismuth eutectic on tensile, fatigue and creep properties of ferritic/martensitic and austenitic steels for transmutation systems

D Gorse, T Auger, JB Vogt, I Serre… - Journal of nuclear …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, the tensile, fatigue and creep properties of the Ferritic/Martensitic (F/M) steel
T91 and of the Austenitic Stainless (AS) Steel 316L in lead–bismuth eutectic (LBE) or lead …

Liquid zinc embrittlement of twinning-induced plasticity steel

C Beal, X Kleber, D Fabregue, M Bouzekri - Scripta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The susceptibility of a Fe22Mn0. 6C twinning-induced plasticity steel to liquid zinc
embrittlement has been investigated by performing hot tensile tests on bare and …

Thermally-induced fracture in the oxide scale of T91 ferritic/martensitic steel after exposure to oxygen-saturated liquid lead–bismuth eutectic

Y Liu, J Du, Z Zhou, C Tian, Z Liu, Y Zhang… - Engineering Fracture …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ensuring the continuity and stability of the oxide scale to separate T91 steel from lead-
bismuth eutectic (LBE) is an effective method for limiting corrosion in the lead-based fast …

Liquid Pb–Bi embrittlement effects on the T91 steel after different heat treatments

B Long, Z Tong, F Gröschel, Y Dai - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2008 - Elsevier
The present work aims to investigate the susceptibility of ferritic/martensitic steels of different
strength to the embrittlement of liquid Pb–Bi eutectic (LBE). Slow strain rate tensile (SSRT) …

Effects of alloying elements on cohesion and brittleness of grain boundary of iron

YC Jiang, J Zhao, L Sun, HR Gong, X Gong - Materials chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
First-principles calculation is performed to systematically investigate the effects of alloying
elements (Cr, Mo, Ni, Pb, and Bi) on stability, cohesion strength, Young's modulus, and …