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2. Modeling hydrogen solvus in zirconium solution by the mesoscale phase-field modeling code Hyrax.
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Lin, Jun-li and Heuser, Brent J.
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ENERGY function , *ZIRCONIUM compounds , *CRYSTALS , *LIGHT water reactors , *SOLUBILITY , *HYDROGEN - Abstract
Graphical abstract A phase-field modeling code with Calphad-based free energy functions, Hyrax, has been used to model the hydrogen solvus in alpha-zirconium solution and the formation of the zirconium-hydride phase in the zirconium matrix. The modeled hydrogen solvus was compared against published experimental data; this is considered the first direct validation of Hyrax output. The effect of external stress on hydrogen solvus and hydride formation has also been modeled. A tensile stress was uniformly applied to a single zirconium crystal and a bi-crystal system. We observed that the stress does not affect hydrogen solvus but does cause hydride to accumulate in the crystalline which has the c-axis parallel to the stress direction. Abstract Zirconium-based alloys are common materials for light water reactor (LWR) fuel cladding. These alloys readily absorb hydrogen and are subjected to lose ductility due to hydride accumulation. A phase-field modeling code with Calphad-based free energy functions, Hyrax, has been used to model the hydrogen solvus in α -zirconium solution and the formation of the δ zirconium-hydride phase in the α -zirconium matrix. The modeled hydrogen solvus was compared against published experimental data; this is considered the first direct validation of Hyrax output. The effect of external stress on hydrogen solvus and hydride formation has also been modeled. A tensile stress was uniformly applied to a single zirconium crystal and a bi-crystal system. We observed that the stress does not affect hydrogen solvus but does cause hydride to accumulate in the crystalline which has the c-axis parallel to the stress direction. This is because the external stress creates a strain energy gradient across the system; the δ -hydride preferentially precipitates in the low strain energy region which yields more lattice misfit strain to compensate the gradient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Small‐angle neutron scattering measurements of δ‐phase deuteride (hydride) precipitates in Zircaloy 4.
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Heuser, Brent J., Lin, Jun-Li, Do, Changwoo, and He, Lilin
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NEUTRON scattering , *HYDRIDES , *ZIRCALOY-2 , *DEUTERIUM , *REPRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *PRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *SEPARATION (Technology) - Abstract
Small‐angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements have been performed under ambient conditions to characterize deuteride (hydride) particles in Zircaloy 4, a fuel cladding material used in pressurized light‐water nuclear reactors. Hydrogen pickup by the cladding leads to a rim structure in which large circumferential hydride plate‐like particles preferentially form on the cooler water‐side region of the cladding. Deuterium substitution has been used to increase the coherent response and decrease the incoherent background of the SANS measurements. Four bulk deuterium concentrations were investigated, approximately 100, 400, 500 and 1000 parts per million by weight (w.p.p.m.) deuterium, as well as a zero‐deuterium‐concentration reference sample. The net SANS response from the deuteride phase was determined at all concentration values after subtraction of the reference SANS response, which effectively subtracted the strong scattering from second‐phase particles in as‐received Zircaloy. The net SANS response consisted of strong Porod scattering from deuteride particles over the entire measured Q range (0.005–0.4 Å−1). The net SANS response was anisotropic at concentrations greater than 100 w.p.p.m. and required elliptical averaging analysis. A significant sample orientation effect on the intensity of the SANS response was observed, due to preferential alignment of deuteride particles. The effect of ex situ applied stress at elevated temperature on deuteride phase dissolution and reprecipitation was investigated; a weak effect was observed with SANS that could not be confirmed by optical microscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Azimuthally anisotropic hydride lens structures in Zircaloy 4 nuclear fuel cladding: High-resolution neutron radiography imaging and BISON finite element analysis.
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Lin, Jun-Li, Zhong, Weicheng, Bilheux, Hassina Z., and Heuser, Brent J.
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NUCLEAR fuel claddings , *NEUTRON radiography , *FINITE element method , *HYDRIDES , *NEUTRON counters - Abstract
High-resolution neutron radiography has been used to image bulk circumferential hydride lens particles in unirradiated Zircaloy 4 tubing cross section specimens. Zircaloy 4 is a common light water nuclear reactor (LWR) fuel cladding; hydrogen pickup, hydride formation, and the concomitant effect on the mechanical response are important for LWR applications. Ring cross section specimens with three hydrogen concentrations (460, 950, and 2830 parts per million by weight) and an as-received reference specimen were imaged. Azimuthally anisotropic hydride lens particles were observed at 950 and 2830 wppm. The BISON finite element analysis nuclear fuel performance code was used to model the system elastic response induced by hydride volumetric dilatation. The compressive hoop stress within the lens structure becomes azimuthally anisotropic at high hydrogen concentrations or high hydride phase fraction. This compressive stress anisotropy matches the observed lens anisotropy, implicating the effect of stress on hydride formation as the cause of the observed lens azimuthal asymmetry. The cause and effect relation between compressive stress and hydride lens anisotropy represents an indirect validation of a key BISON output, the evolved hoop stress associated with hydride formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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5. Effect of external stress on deuteride (hydride) precipitation in Zircaloy-4 using in situ neutron diffraction.
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Lin, Jun-li, Heuser, Brent J., An, Ke, and Stoica, Alexandru D.
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ZIRCONIUM alloys , *NEUTRON diffraction , *DEUTERIUM , *HYDRIDES , *PRECIPITATION (Chemistry) , *SOLUBILITY , *TENSILE strength , *NUCLEAR fuel claddings - Abstract
In situ neutron diffraction is utilized to study the deuteride (hydride) precipitation behavior in a cold-worked stress-relieved (CWSR) Zircaloy-4 material upon cooling from 420 °C to room temperature with a 78 MPa external stress applied along the rolling direction (RD) of the material. Two banks detector capture the diffraction signal from two principal directions of the specimen, the normal direction (ND) and the rolling direction (RD). The evolution of deuterium concentration in zirconium solid solution along the two specimen directions is measured by studying the δ -(220) peak intensity, applying the Rietveld refinement method to the diffraction data and using the measured zirconium c-axis lattice distortion. The deuterium concentration is observed to be higher for zirconium grains in the ND than the RD. The terminal solid solubility of precipitation (TSSp) for deuterium in the solution is then described using the Arrhenius equation. It is observed that the applied stress reduces the energy term Q in the Arrhenius equation when compared with the unstressed Q values from the work of others. A model by Puls is applied to study the effect of stress on deuterium solubility, with polycrystalline hydride precipitation strain calculated using the Kearns factor representative of the studied material. The experimental result does not agree with the model prediction of Puls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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6. Study of the mechanical behavior of the hydride blister/rim structure in Zircaloy-4 using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction.
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Lin, Jun-li, Han, Xiaochun, Heuser, Brent J., and Almer, Jonathan D.
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MECHANICAL behavior of materials , *HYDRIDES , *MOLECULAR structure , *X-ray diffraction , *RIETVELD refinement - Abstract
High-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction was utilized to study the mechanical response of the f.c.c δ hydride phase, the intermetallic precipitation with hexagonal C14 lave phase and the α -Zr phase in the Zircaloy-4 materials with a hydride rim/blister structure near one surface of the material during in-situ uniaxial tension experiment at 200 °C. The f.c.c δ was the only hydride phase observed in the rim/blister structure. The conventional Rietveld refinement was applied to measure the macro-strain equivalent response of the three phases. Two regions were delineated in the applied load versus lattice strain measurement: a linear elastic strain region and region that exhibited load partitioning. Load partitioning was quantified by von Mises analysis. The three phases were observed to have similar elastic modulus at 200 °C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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7. In situ synchrotron tensile investigations on 14YWT, MA957, and 9-Cr ODS alloys.
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Lin, Jun-Li, Mo, Kun, Yun, Di, Miao, Yinbin, Liu, Xiang, Zhao, Huijuan, Hoelzer, David T., Park, Jun-Sang, Almer, Jonathan, Zhang, Guangming, Zhou, Zhangjian, Stubbins, James F., and Yacout, Abdellatif M.
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SYNCHROTRONS , *TENSILE strength , *PARTICLE size determination , *X-ray diffraction , *NANOPARTICLES analysis - Abstract
Advanced ODS alloys provide exceptional radiation tolerance and high-temperature mechanical properties when compared to traditional ferritic and ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels. Their remarkable properties result from ultrahigh density and ultrafine size of Y–Ti–O nanoclusters within the ferritic matrix. In this work, we applied a high-energy synchrotron radiation X-ray to study the deformation process of three advanced ODS materials including 14YWT, MA957, and 9-Cr ODS steel. Only the relatively large nanoparticles in the 9-Cr ODS were observed in the synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The nanoclusters in both 14YWT and MA957 were invisible in the measurement due to their non-stoichiometric nature. Due to the different sizes of nanoparticles and nanoclusters in the materials, the Orowan looping was considered to be the major strengthening mechanism in the 9-Cr ODS, while the dispersed-barrier-hardening is dominant strengthening mechanism in both 14YWT and MA957, This analysis was inferred from the different build-up rates of dislocation density when plastic deformation was initiated. Finally, the dislocation densities interpreted from the X-ray measurements were successfully modeled using the Bergström's dislocation models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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8. Direct measurement of hydrogen diffusivity and solubility limits in Zircaloy 2 (formula unit of ZrH0.0155) using incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering.
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Heuser, Brent J., Prisk, Timothy R., Lin, Jun-li, Dax, Tanya J., and Zhang, Yongfeng
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QUASI-elastic scattering , *NEUTRON scattering , *LIGHT water reactors , *ACTIVATION energy , *SOLUBILITY , *KIRKENDALL effect - Abstract
The diffusivity of hydrogen is an important property of light water nuclear reactor (LWR) fuel cladding. LWR cladding absorbs hydrogen during normal operation, a contributing factor to embrittlement that decreases the lifetime of the fuel. Mass transport of hydrogen is dictated by an Arrhenius behavior typical of solid state diffusion and the associated activation energy is therefore a property relevant to LWR fuel performance. We have used incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to directly measure the diffusivity of hydrogen in recrystallized Zircaloy 2 with a hydrogen concentration of 170 μg/g. We rely upon the low-Q expansion for long-range diffusion to determine diffusivity as a function of temperature between 572 and 780 K. We find the diffusivity is given by D(T) = 0.0067 exp (-0.461 eV/kT) [cm2/s] below 670 K and by D(T) = 0.0012 exp (-0.36 eV/kT) [cm2/s] above 670 K. Our activation energy below 670 K agrees with the value typically used to assess hydrogen diffusivity in LWR cladding [Kearns, Journal of Nuclear Materials 43 (1972) 330], but is approximately 20% lower above 670 K. The two different activation barriers are attributed to impurity trapping of hydrogen solutes at lower temperature that ceases to influence diffusivity at higher temperature. The application of the Oriani model for diffusion with impurity trapping to our system demonstrates the plausibility of this hypothesis. We believe this mechanism may be responsible for historical discrepancies of measured hydrogen diffusivity in Zr-based alloys. The elastic intensity versus temperature in fixed window scans exhibit inflection points that are in good agreement with the published terminal solid solution solubility limits for hydrogen in Zircaloy 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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9. Effect of Te doping on superconductivity and charge-density wave in dichalcogenides 2H-NbSe2-xTex (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2).
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Hong-Tao, Wang, Lin-Jun, Li, De-Shu, Ye, Xin-Hong, Cheng, and Zhu-An, Xu
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Single crystals of Te-doped dichalcogenides 2H-NbSe2-xTex (x = 0,0.10,0.20) were grown by vapour transport method. The effect of Te doping on the superconducting and charge-density wave (CDW) transitions has been investigated. The sharp decrease of residual resistance ratio, RRR = R(300K)/R(8K), with increasing Te content was observed, indicating that the disorder in the conducting plane is induced by Te doping. Meanwhile the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, decreases monotonically with Te content. However, the CDW transition temperature, TCDW, shown by a small jump in the temperature dependence of the resistivity near 30 K, increases slightly. The results show that the suppression of superconductivity might be caused by the enhancement of CDW ordering. The disorder has little influence on the CDW ordering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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10. Vibrational modes and quantum zero-point energy of hydrogen in ZrH0.0155 and ZrH2.
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Prisk, Timothy R., Kolesnikov, Alexander I., Granroth, Garrett E., Lin, Jun-Li, and Heuser, Brent J.
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GROUND state energy , *HYDROGEN as fuel , *INELASTIC neutron scattering , *MOMENTUM distributions , *HYDROGEN atom , *EXCITED states - Abstract
We report on an inelastic neutron scattering study of the proton dynamics in ZrH 0.0155 and ε-ZrH 2. In particular, we present measurements of the incoherent dynamic structure factor, generalized vibrational density of states, and proton momentum distribution of these two materials. Our results are generally consistent with theoretical predictions of Elsässer et al. [Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 453 221–226 (1997)]. They argued that the effective Born-Oppenheimer potential experienced by the hydrogen atoms in ε-ZrH 2 is nearly isotropic and harmonic at energies below 0.3 eV, but becomes anisotropic and anharmonic for higher energies. At low temperatures, the proton momentum distribution is dominated by the quantum-mechanical ground state of the protons. We find that it assumes a Gaussian shape, consistent with the concept that the potential surface is approximately harmonic for small displacements of the hydrogen atoms. However, the anharmonicity of the potential becomes readily apparent in the excited states of the hydrogen atoms, as the harmonic approximation breaks down in the description of the multiphonon bands. • Inelastic neutron scattering data were obtained for ZrH0.0155 and ZrH2 up to 6 eV. • The Born-Oppenheimer potential is only harmonic for energies below 300 meV. • Fine structure of the optical modes is partly removed by disorder in ZrH0.0155. • New option of studying attosecond proton dynamics with direct geometry instruments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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