2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
| Project/Area Number |
23760822
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Nuclear engineering
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOYAMA Takeshi 東北大学, 金属材料研究所, 講師 (50510129)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 析出物 / ３次元アトムプローブ / 中性子照射 / ステンレス鋼 |
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| Research Abstract |
Irradiation-induced precipitates/grain boundary segregation are one of the main origins for irradiation-induced degradation of a stainless steel. For instance, fine precipitates causes irradiation-induced hardening. This study investigated a stainless steel irradiated to a dose of over twenty displacement per atom at the temperature of a light water reactor operation in the fuel wrapper plates of a commercial pressurized water reactor by using three-dimensional atom probe. A high number density of Ni-Si precipitates was observed, which is one order of magnitude higher than that of Frank loops observed by transmission electron microscope. The morphology of the precipitate, such as size, number density and chemical composition, were analyzed in detail, then the hardening due to the precipitates was estimated by using Orowan-model. It is found that the Ni-Si precipitates have an important contribution to irradiation-hardening.
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