Fusion materials science: Overview of challenges and recent progress

SJ Zinkle - Physics of Plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A brief review is given of fundamental materials science concepts important for development
of structural materials for fusion energy systems. Particular attention is placed on …

Dislocation–obstacle interactions at the atomic level

DJ Bacon, YN Osetsky, D Rodney - Dislocations in solids, 2009 - Elsevier
Dislocation–obstacle interactions that resist the glide of dislocations in metals, and hence
increase the applied stress necessary for plastic deformation, are treated at the atomic scale …

Removal of stacking-fault tetrahedra by twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals

KY Yu, D Bufford, C Sun, Y Liu, H Wang, MA Kirk… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Stacking-fault tetrahedra are detrimental defects in neutron-or proton-irradiated structural
metals with face-centered cubic structures. Their removal is very challenging and typically …

Reversible dislocation movement, martensitic transformation and nano-twinning during elastic cyclic loading of a metastable high entropy alloy

SM Vakili, A Zarei-Hanzaki, AS Anoushe, HR Abedi… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study contends with the room temperature microstructural response of a non-
equiatomic metastable high entropy alloy to the elastic cyclic deformation. The stress and …

Intragranular irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) of 316L stainless steel made by laser direct energy deposition additive manufacturing: Delta ferrite …

J Yang, L Hawkins, L He, S Mahmood, M Song… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) resistance of as-built AM
316L stainless steel (SS) made by direct energy deposition (DED) was evaluated in a …

Mapping strain rate dependence of dislocation-defect interactions by atomistic simulations

Y Fan, YN Osetskiy, S Yip… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Probing the mechanisms of defect–defect interactions at strain rates lower than 106 s− 1 is
an unresolved challenge to date to molecular dynamics (MD) techniques. Here we propose …

Direct formation of novel Frank loop and stacking-fault tetrahedron complex

Y Li, Y Lin, D Cui, H Deng, G Ran - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Stacking-fault tetrahedron (SFT) is one kind of typical three-dimensional vacancy defect in
quenched, deformed or irradiated face-centered cubic (FCC) metals, which can seriously …

Fundamental mechanisms for irradiation-hardening and embrittlement: a review

X Xiao - Metals, 2019 - mdpi.com
It has long been recognized that exposure to irradiation environments could dramatically
degrade the mechanical properties of nuclear structural materials, ie, irradiation-hardening …

In situ studies on radiation tolerance of nanotwinned Cu

Y Chen, J Li, KY Yu, H Wang, MA Kirk, M Li, X Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the radiation response of nanotwinned Cu by using in situ Kr ion irradiation
technique inside a transmission electron microscope. In comparison with coarse grained Cu …

Atomic-scale study of dislocation–stacking fault tetrahedron interactions. Part I: mechanisms

YN Osetsky, D Rodney, DJ Bacon - Philosophical Magazine, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Stacking fault tetrahedra (SFTs) are formed under irradiation in fcc metals and alloys. The
high number density of SFTs observed suggests that they should contribute to radiation …