On the history and status of reactor pressure vessel steel ductile to brittle transition temperature shift prediction models

GR Odette, T Yamamoto, TJ Williams… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper melds an overview of the history of Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) embrittlement
research, focusing on predicting ductile-to-brittle transition temperature shifts (ΔT), along …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale modelling for fusion and fission materials: The M4F project

L Malerba, MJ Caturla, E Gaganidze, C Kaden… - Nuclear materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The M4F project brings together the fusion and fission materials communities working on the
prediction of radiation damage production and evolution and their effects on the mechanical …

Enhancing yield stress and uniform elongation in an ultrathin packaging steel via controlling dislocation density

YZ Li, SL Zhao, SH He, CP Huang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrathin sheet steels used in the global packaging industry for lightweight packaging
applications have been achieved by an extra cold processing (double reduction) to increase …

Solute diffusion by self-interstitial defects and radiation-induced segregation in ferritic Fe–X (X= Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, P, Si) dilute alloys

L Messina, T Schuler, M Nastar, MC Marinica, P Olsson - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
This work investigates solute transport due to self-interstitial defects and radiation induced
segregation tendencies in dilute ferritic alloys, by computing the transport coefficients of …

Thermodynamic and kinetic modeling of Mn-Ni-Si precipitates in low-Cu reactor pressure vessel steels

H Ke, P Wells, PD Edmondson, N Almirall, L Barnard… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Formation of large volume fractions of Mn-Ni-Si precipitates (MNSPs) causes excess
irradiation embrittlement of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels at high, extended-life …

Atomistic Insights into Lithium Storage Mechanisms in Anatase, Rutile, and Amorphous TiO2 Electrodes

JA Yuwono, P Burr, C Galvin… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory calculations were used to investigate the phase transformations of
Li x TiO2 (at 0≤ x≤ 1), solid-state Li+ diffusion, and interfacial charge-transfer reactions in …

Carbide precipitation and coarsening kinetics in low carbon and low alloy steel during quenching and subsequently tempering

D Ning, CR Dai, JL Wu, YD Wang, YQ Wang… - Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
As-quenched microstructure in a low carbon and low alloy steel has been examined by
transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. The coarsening kinetics of …

First-principles analysis of solute diffusion in dilute bcc Fe- alloys

CD Versteylen, NH Van Dijk, MHF Sluiter - Physical review B, 2017 - APS
The diffusivities of substitutional impurity elements in iron have been computed with ab inito
electronic density functional techniques, using exchange-correlation functional PW91 …

European materials development: Results and perspective

G Pintsuk, E Diegele, SL Dudarev, M Gorley… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the EUROfusion DEMO materials research program and highlights
the characterization of the in-vessel baseline materials EUROFER97, CuCrZr and tungsten …

The dominant mechanisms for the formation of solute-rich clusters in low-Cu steels under irradiation

N Castin, G Bonny, A Bakaev, F Bergner… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
The formation of nano-sized, coherent, solute-rich clusters (NSRC) is known to be an
important factor causing the degradation of the macroscopic properties of steels under …