Tunable chemical disorder in concentrated alloys: defect physics and radiation performance

Y Zhang, YN Osetsky, WJ Weber - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of advanced structural alloys with performance meeting the requirements
of extreme environments in nuclear reactors has been long pursued. In the long history of …

Radiation-induced solute segregation in metallic alloys

AJ Ardell, P Bellon - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The subject of radiation-induced solute segregation (RIS) in metallic alloys is reviewed. RIS
manifests itself in several different ways, including diffusion to point-defect sinks …

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 …

Exact ab initio transport coefficients in bcc (, , , , , ) dilute alloys

L Messina, M Nastar, T Garnier, C Domain, P Olsson - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Defect-driven diffusion of impurities is the major phenomenon leading to formation of
embrittling nanoscopic precipitates in irradiated reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels …

Precipitation and hardening in irradiated low alloy steels with a wide range of Ni and Mn compositions

N Almirall, PB Wells, T Yamamoto, K Wilford, T Williams… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Mn-Ni-Si intermetallic precipitates (MNSPs) that are observed in some Fe-based
alloys following thermal aging and irradiation are of considerable scientific and technical …

Behaviour of P, Si, Ni impurities and Cr in self ion irradiated Fe–Cr alloys–Comparison to neutron irradiation

C Pareige, V Kuksenko, P Pareige - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents an atom probe tomography study of phase transformation and solute
segregation in Fe–Cr alloys of low purity under self-ion irradiation. Fe–9% Cr and Fe–12 …

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 …

Systematic electronic-structure investigation of substitutional impurity diffusion and flux coupling in bcc iron

L Messina, M Nastar, N Sandberg, P Olsson - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The diffusion properties of a wide range of impurities (transition metals and Al, Si, and P) in
ferritic alloys are here investigated by means of a combined ab initio–atomic diffusion theory …

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 …

Structural characterization of nanoscale intermetallic precipitates in highly neutron irradiated reactor pressure vessel steels

DJ Sprouster, J Sinsheimer, E Dooryhee, SK Ghose… - Scripta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Massive, thick-walled pressure vessels are permanent nuclear reactor structures that are
exposed to a damaging flux of neutrons from the adjacent core. The neutrons cause …