结构钢中多种缺陷势阱对He的捕获行为研究

Capture Behavior of Helium by Multiple Defect Sinks in Structural Steel

  • 摘要: 目前研究的抗辐照聚变堆结构材料大多含有丰富的缺陷势阱,缺陷势阱能够分散空腔,抑制其生长,从而提升材料耐受聚变中子辐照的性能。虽然晶界、相界及位错都能够捕获空腔,但空腔聚集于晶界处比其聚集于相界或位错处将对材料的力学性能造成更为不利的影响。因此,研究不同缺陷势阱对空腔的捕获能力对于研发更有效耐受聚变中子辐照的新型材料具有重要的指导作用。氦在空腔形核与生长中起主导作用,因此本工作采用氦离子注入的方式,通过观测不同缺陷势阱周围氦泡的聚集程度,获得各种缺陷势阱捕获氦能力的相对强度。镧元素掺杂的微纳复合304L不锈钢(MN304-La)主要有4种缺陷势阱,分别是纳米颗粒(NP)、复合晶界(CGB)、纳米晶界(NGB)和位错。为了研究这些缺陷势阱对氦的相对捕获能力,分别在室温和450 ℃下,用190 keV的氦离子对纳米晶粒尺寸不同(平均尺寸分别是259、154、61 nm)微米晶粒尺寸相同的MN304-La(分别命名为259-MN304-La、154-MN304-La、61-MN304-La)进行辐照,辐照注量为1.5×1016 cm−2。在室温下辐照的样品再经过900 ℃下退火。使用透射电子显微镜和定量测量的方法表征了3种MN304-La样品中氦泡在各种缺陷势阱上的分布。结果发现,4种缺陷势阱中,NP在259-MN304-La中对氦具有最强的捕获能力,CGB的捕获能力次之,而位错的捕获能力最弱。NP捕获氦的能力存在环境效应。随着纳米晶粒尺寸的减小,NP捕获氦的能力会因周围NGB密度的增加而减弱。此外,尽管4种缺陷势阱在每种材料中捕获氦的相对强度保持不变,但温度的升高增强了每种缺陷势阱捕获氦的能力。

     

    Abstract: Iron-based structural materials exhibit a significant hydrogen-helium synergistic damage effect under 14 MeV fusion neutron irradiation. Currently, the researched irradiation-resistant fusion reactor structural materials mainly have high-density nano-oxide particles or precipitated phases, which mean abundant defects such as grain boundaries and phase interfaces acting as traps. This helps to disperse vacancies, suppress their growth, and thus enhance the material’s resistance to the synergistic damage caused by hydrogen and helium from fusion neutron irradiation. Although grain boundaries, phase boundaries, and dislocations can all capture cavities, the aggregation of cavities at grain boundaries has a more detrimental effect on the mechanical properties of the material than their aggregation at phase boundaries or dislocations. Therefore, studying the capture capabilities of different defect sinks on cavities are of great guiding significance for the development of new materials that are more effective in withstanding fusion neutron irradiation. Helium plays a dominant role in cavity nucleation and growth. This work adopts the method of helium ion injection to obtain the relative strength of various defect sinks in capturing helium by observing the aggregation degree of helium bubbles around different defect sinks. The micro-nano composite 304L stainless steels (MN304-La) mainly have four types of defect sinks, which are nano-precipitate (NP), composite grain boundary (CGB), nanograin boundary (NGB), and dislocations. In order to study the relative capture strength of helium by these defect sinks, three types of MN304-Las with different nanograin sizes but the same microcrystalline grain sizes were irradiated by 190 keV He+ ions to a fluence of 1.5×1016 cm−2 at room temperature (RT) and 450 ℃, respectively. Samples irradiated at RT were subsequently annealed at 900 ℃. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and quantitative measurement were used to characterize the distribution of helium bubbles on different defect sinks in three MN304-La samples. The method proposed before was used and it is found that among the four defect sinks, the strongest capture strength for helium in 259-MN304-La is possessed by the NP, the second-strongest capture strength is possessed by CGBs, and the weakest capture strength is possessed by dislocations. There exists a grain environment effect on the capability of NPs to capture helium. As the nanograin size decreases, the capability of NPs to capture helium will be weakened by surrounding NGBs, so the capability of NPs to capture helium becomes the weakest among the four defect sinks. Additionally, increasing the temperature enhances the capability of each defect sink to capture helium, though the relative strength of helium captured by the four defect sinks in each material remains unchanged.

     

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