TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanical characterisation of V-4Cr-4Ti alloy
T2 - Tensile tests under high energy synchrotron diffraction
AU - Sparks, Tay
AU - Nguyen-Manh, Duc
AU - Zheng, Pengfei
AU - Wróbel, Jan S.
AU - Sobieraj, Damian
AU - Gorley, Michael
AU - Connolley, Thomas
AU - Reinhard, Christina
AU - Wang, Yiqiang
AU - Cai, Biao
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this work was provided by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy & Materials. We acknowledge the Diamond Light Source for time on the I12 beamline under proposal [EE19251]. The authors thank the University of Manchester for access to the ETMT rig. Dr Wang, Dr Gorley and Dr. Nguyen-Manh (DNM) would also like to acknowledge the EPSRC grants EP/T012250/1 and EP/W006839/1, and the UK Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Work of DNM, Jan S. Wróbel (JSW) and Damian Sobieraj (DS) has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. DNM and JSW also acknowledges the support from high-performing computing facility MARCONI (Bologna, Italy) provided by EUROfusion. The work at Warsaw University of Technology has been carried out as a part of an international project co-financed from the funds of the program of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education entitled "PMW" in 2019, Agreement No. 5018 / H2020-Euratom / 2020/2. The simulations were also carried out with the support of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw, under grant No. GB79-6.
Funding Information:
Funding for this work was provided by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy & Materials . We acknowledge the Diamond Light Source for time on the I12 beamline under proposal [EE19251]. The authors thank the University of Manchester for access to the ETMT rig. Dr Wang, Dr Gorley and Dr. Nguyen-Manh (DNM) would also like to acknowledge the EPSRC grants EP/T012250/1 and EP/W006839/1, and the UK Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Work of DNM, Jan S. Wróbel (JSW) and Damian Sobieraj (DS) has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — EUROfusion ). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. DNM and JSW also acknowledges the support from high-performing computing facility MARCONI (Bologna, Italy) provided by EUROfusion. The work at Warsaw University of Technology has been carried out as a part of an international project co-financed from the funds of the program of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education entitled "PMW" in 2019, Agreement No. 5018 / H2020-Euratom / 2020/2. The simulations were also carried out with the support of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), University of Warsaw , under grant No. GB79-6 .
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PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Vanadium base alloys represent potentially promising candidate structural materials for use in nuclear fusion reactors due to vanadium's low activity, high thermal strength, and good swelling resistance. In this work, the mechanical properties of the current frontrunner vanadium base alloy, V-4Cr-4Ti, have been interrogated using in-situ high energy X-ray diffraction (XRD) tensile testing at varying temperatures. The single crystal elastic constants of the samples were determined from the in-situ XRD data and used to evaluate results from density functional theory calculations. Polycrystalline elastic properties and Zener anisotropy were calculated from the single crystal elastic constants produced, revealing the effect of elevated temperature on the alloy's elastic properties. These results characterise important thermomechanical properties, valuable in mechanical modelling, that will allow further and improved analysis of the structural suitability of V-4Cr-4Ti ahead of alloy adoption in the mainstream.
AB - Vanadium base alloys represent potentially promising candidate structural materials for use in nuclear fusion reactors due to vanadium's low activity, high thermal strength, and good swelling resistance. In this work, the mechanical properties of the current frontrunner vanadium base alloy, V-4Cr-4Ti, have been interrogated using in-situ high energy X-ray diffraction (XRD) tensile testing at varying temperatures. The single crystal elastic constants of the samples were determined from the in-situ XRD data and used to evaluate results from density functional theory calculations. Polycrystalline elastic properties and Zener anisotropy were calculated from the single crystal elastic constants produced, revealing the effect of elevated temperature on the alloy's elastic properties. These results characterise important thermomechanical properties, valuable in mechanical modelling, that will allow further and improved analysis of the structural suitability of V-4Cr-4Ti ahead of alloy adoption in the mainstream.
KW - nuclear materials
KW - synchrotron x-ray diffraction
KW - vanadium alloy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2022.153911
DO - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2022.153911
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-3115
VL - 569
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Nuclear Materials
JF - Journal of Nuclear Materials
M1 - 153911
ER -
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