Recent progress in research on tungsten materials for nuclear fusion applications in Europe

M Rieth, SL Dudarev, SMG De Vicente, J Aktaa… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Elsevier
The current magnetic confinement nuclear fusion power reactor concepts going beyond
ITER are based on assumptions about the availability of materials with extreme mechanical …

Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

Selective laser melting of tungsten and tungsten alloys

A Iveković, N Omidvari, B Vrancken, K Lietaert… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing technique which enables
fabrication of three dimensional objects by selectively melting successive layers of metallic …

First-principles determination of grain boundary strengthening in tungsten: dependence on grain boundary structure and metallic radius of solute

X Wu, YW You, XS Kong, JL Chen, GN Luo, GH Lu… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The control of segregation-induced grain boundary (GB) strengthening is a strategy for
improving the ductility and intergranular fracture of metals. In this work, by first-principles …

Characterisation of radiation damage in W and W-based alloys from 2 MeV self-ion near-bulk implantations

X Yi, ML Jenkins, K Hattar, PD Edmondson… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
The displacement damage induced in W and W-5 wt.% Re and W-5 wt.% Ta alloys by 2 MeV
W+ irradiation to doses 3.3× 10 17–2.5× 10 19 W+/m 2 at temperatures ranging from 300 to …

High-energy collision cascades in tungsten: Dislocation loops structure and clustering scaling laws

AE Sand, SL Dudarev, K Nordlund - Europhysics Letters, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments on in situ high-energy self-ion irradiation of tungsten (W) show the
occurrence of unusual cascade damage effects resulting from single-ion impacts, shedding …

Recent advances in modeling and simulation of the exposure and response of tungsten to fusion energy conditions

J Marian, CS Becquart, C Domain, SL Dudarev… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Under the anticipated operating conditions for demonstration magnetic fusion reactors
beyond ITER, structural and plasma-facing materials will be exposed to unprecedented …

[HTML][HTML] Materials for in-vessel components

G Pintsuk, G Aiello, SL Dudarev, M Gorley… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The EUROfusion materials research program for DEMO in-vessel components aligns with
the European Fusion Roadmap and comprises the characterization and qualification of the …

Elastic trapping of dislocation loops in cascades in ion-irradiated tungsten foils

DR Mason, X Yi, MA Kirk… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Using in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), we have observed nanometre scale
dislocation loops formed when an ultra-high-purity tungsten foil is irradiated with a very low …

Lattice swelling and modulus change in a helium-implanted tungsten alloy: X-ray micro-diffraction, surface acoustic wave measurements, and multiscale modelling

F Hofmann, D Nguyen-Manh, MR Gilbert, CE Beck… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Using X-ray micro-diffraction and surface acoustic wave spectroscopy, we measure lattice
swelling and elastic modulus changes in a W-1% Re alloy after implantation with 3110 …