物理学报2017，Vol.66Issue(11)：54-62,9.DOI:10.7498/aps.66.112501
高能重离子辐照的低活化钢硬化效应
Hardening of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels under the irradiation of high-energy heavy-ion
摘要
Abstract
In order to study the irradiation responses of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels which are candidates for fusion reactors,a reduced activation steel is irradiated at a terminal of HIRFL (heavy ion research facility in Lanzhou) with 63 MeV 14N ions and 336 MeV 56Fe ions at-50 ℃C.The energies of the incident N/Fe ions are varied from 0.22 MeV/u to 6.17 MeV/u by using an energy degrader at the terminal,so that a plateau region of an atomic displacement damage (0.05-0.2 dpa) is obtained from the near surface to a depth of 24 μm in the specimens.Nanoindentation technique is used to investigate the nano-hardness changes of the samples before and after irradiation.The constant stiffness measurement is used to obtain the depth profile of hardness.The Nix-Gao model taking account of the indentation size effect (ISE) is used to fit the measured hardness and thus a hardness value excluding ISE is obtained.Consequently,the soft substrate effect for lower energy ion irradiation is effectively avoided.It is observed that there seems to be a power function relationship between the hardness and damage for the RAFM steel.The hardness initially increases significantly with the increase of irradiation damage,then increases slowly when the damage reaches to about 0.2 dpa.Positron annihilation is performed to investigate the defect evolution in the material.The positron annihilation lifetime spectra show that the long-lifetime proportion of the RAFM steel increases significantly after being irradiated.This means vacancy clusters are produced by the irradiation,resulting in the change of mechanics property.Even at low irradiation dose,point defects with high density are generated in the steel specimens,and subsequently aggregate into defect clusters,thereby suppressing the dislocation slip.The defect concentration in the material increases continuously with the increase of irradiation damage,which leads to the obvious irradiation hardening phenomenon.When the damage is higher than 0.1 dpa,the increment of mean lifetime gradually decreases due to the existence of a large number of vacancies and dislocations,and it eventually tends to be saturated,which explains why the irradiation hardening increment rate decreases with the increase of irradiation damage in the material.关键词
低活化钢/N/Fe离子辐照/硬化/空位团Key words
reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel/N/Fe-ions irradiation/hardening/vacancy clusters引用本文复制引用
丁兆楠,杨义涛,宋银,张丽卿,缑洁,张崇宏,罗广南..高能重离子辐照的低活化钢硬化效应[J].物理学报,2017,66(11):54-62,9.基金项目
Project supported by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.U1532262) and the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Program,China (Grant No.2011GB108003).国家自然科学基金大科学装置联合基金(批准号:U1532262)和国家磁约束核聚变能发展计划专项(批准号:2011GB108003)资助的课题. （Grant No.U1532262）
