Published October 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Effects of hydrogen on interaction between dislocation and radiation-induced defects

  • 1. Inst. of Nuclear Safety System, Inc., Inst. of Nuclear Technology, Mihama, Fukui (Japan)

Description

To investigate effects of solute hydrogens on deformation localization due to irradiation, ion-irradiated stainless steels were tensiled under hydrogen gas atmosphere of 75MPa at 300degC and surface steps and cross sectional microstructures were observed and then the nanoindentation hardness was measured for specimens electrolytic hydrogen charged at the room temperature. It turned out that solute hydrogen diminishes the increase of surface step spacing due to irradiation, indicating that solute hydrogens suppress deformation localization due to irradiation. However, the fact that solute hydrogen significantly affects the interaction between dislocations and radiation-induced defects was not obvious in the microstructure observations. Solution hardening due to hydrogen solution was observed, so it was deduced that the increase of surface step spacing due to irradiation was diminished because solute hydrogens became inhibiting factor for dislocation movement. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
INSS Journal
Journal Volume
17
Journal Page Range
p. 178-187
ISSN
1340-4482

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Notes
13 refs., 11 figs., 2 tabs.