Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Radiation-induced helium bubbles in metals

SH Li, JT Li, WZ Han - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Helium (He) bubbles are typical radiation defects in structural materials in nuclear reactors
after high dose energetic particle irradiation. In the past decades, extensive studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing heavy ions-irradiated Zr/Nb: Structure and mechanical properties

N Daghbouj, HS Sen, J Čížek, J Lorinčík, M Karlík… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, the radiation responses of Zr/Nb nanostructured metallic multilayers (NMMs) are
studied. The nanostructures with different layer thicknesses were deposited on Si (1 1 1) …

Mechanical properties of neutron-irradiated model and commercial FeCrAl alloys

KG Field, SA Briggs, K Sridharan, RH Howard… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
The development and understanding of the mechanical properties of neutron-irradiated
FeCrAl alloys is increasingly a critical need as these alloys continue to become more mature …

Phase stability, physical properties and strengthening mechanisms of concentrated solid solution alloys

Z Wu, MC Troparevsky, YF Gao, JR Morris… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2017 - Elsevier
We review recent research developments in a special class of multicomponent concentrated
solid solution alloys (CSAs)–of which the recently discovered high entropy alloys (HEAs) are …

[HTML][HTML] Nano-indentation of ion-irradiated nuclear structural materials: A review

X Xiao, L Yu - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Ion irradiation offers a promising strategy to emulate the irradiation damage induced by
energetic neutrons. However, the characterization of the mechanical properties of ion …

[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 …

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 …

Interaction of Stacking Faults with point/extended defects in Fe-He irradiated 6H-SiC

HS Sen, N Daghbouj, BS Li, AT AlMotasem, FF Ge… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The study explored the microstructure evolution of 6H-SiC that underwent sequential iron
and helium ion irradiation with energies of 2.5 MeV and 500 keV, respectively, at room …

Effects of displacement damage and helium production rates on the nucleation and growth of helium bubbles–Positron annihilation spectroscopy aspects

V Krsjak, J Degmova, S Sojak, V Slugen - Journal of Nuclear materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Fe-12 wt% Cr model alloy samples were implanted by 250 keV He 2+ ions to three different
fluencies (3× 10 17, 9× 10 17 and 1.5× 10 18 cm− 2) at T< 100° C. In a depth profile manner …