Abstract
The impact of compositional complexity on the ion-irradiation induced swelling and hardening is studied in Ni and six Ni-containing equiatomic alloys with face-centered cubic structure. The irradiation resistance at the temperature of 500 °C is improved by controlling the number and, especially, the type of alloying elements. Alloying with Fe and Mn has a stronger influence on swelling reduction than does alloying with Co and Cr. The quinary alloy NiCoFeCrMn, with known excellent mechanical properties, has shown 40 times higher swelling tolerance than nickel.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 65-70 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Scripta Materialia |
| Volume | 119 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1 2016 |
Funding
This work was supported as part of the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences . Ion beam work was performed at the University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ion Beam Materials Laboratory (IBML) located on the campus of the University of Tennessee–Knoxville.
Keywords
- Alloy
- Irradiation
- Nanoindentation
- Swelling