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Irradiation resistance of nanostructured interfaces in Zr–Nb metallic multilayers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Elton Y. Chen ,
Chaitanya Deo  and
Rémi Dingreville
Elton Y. Chen
Affiliation:
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA; and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Department of Nanostructure Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
Chaitanya Deo*
Affiliation:
Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA; and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Rémi Dingreville*
Affiliation:
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Department of Nanostructure Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: chaitanya.deo@me.gatech.edu
b)e-mail: rdingre@sandia.gov
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Abstract

Irradiation resistance of metallic nanostructured multilayers is determined by the interactions between defects and phase boundaries. However, the dose-dependent interfacial morphology evolution can greatly change the nature of the defect–boundary interaction mechanisms over time. In the present study, we used atomistic models combined with a novel technique based on the accumulation of Frenkel pairs to simulate irradiation processes. We examined dose effects on defect evolutions near zirconium–niobium multilayer phase boundaries. Our simulations enabled us to categorize defect evolution mechanisms in bulk phases into progressing stages of dislocation accumulation, saturation, and coalescence. In the metallic multilayers, we observed a phase boundary absorption mechanism early on during irradiation, while at higher damage levels, the increased irradiation intermixing triggered a phase transformation in the Zr–Nb mixture. This physical phenomenon resulted in the emission of a large quantity of small immobile dislocation loops from the phase boundaries.

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radiation effectssimulationcomposite
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 34 , Issue 13: Focus Issue: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Size Effects in Materials , 15 July 2019 , pp. 2239 - 2251
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2019 

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