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Materials Transactions, Vol.45 No.01 (2004) pp.40-50
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Effects of Grain Boundary Misorientation on Radiation-Induced Solute Segregation in Proton Irradiated 304 Stainless Steels

Ji Jung Kai1, Fu Rong Chen1 and Ting Shien Duh2

1Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan 30043, R.O.China
2Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, AEC, Lungtan, Taoyuan, 325, Taiwan, R.O.China

This paper describes the effects of the grain boundary misorientation on the radiation induced segregation (RIS) in proton irradiated 304 stainless steels. Experimentally, four test conditions were used for the 304 stainless steel specimens: (1) As-received (AR) with enriched Cr at grain boundary, (2) AR + 1 dpa proton irradiated at 450°C, (3) Thermal sensitized (SEN), and (4) SEN + 1 dpa proton irradiated at 450°C. Compared with no pre-enrichment condition, a delayed Cr depletion was found at grain boundaries in AR + 1 dpa specimens. After irradiation, the Cr concentration profile across grain boundaries became narrower and deeper in SEN + 1 dpa specimens. The degree of grain boundary segregation was observed to be higher at random boundaries than special boundaries. In the case of SEN + 1 dpa specimens, the segregation cusps were observed at grain boundaries of Σ 3, Σ 9 and Σ 15, and the Cr segregation levels at special boundaries were increasing with Σ for value up to Σ=15. Theoretically, a simple rate equation model with modified boundary conditions, which were related to the grain boundary diffusion of defects and the densities of the grain boundary dislocations, was developed for RIS at boundaries with different Σ and Δθ. The model calculations showed that the RIS model with modified boundary conditions could predict clearly the same trend as that of experiments, in which the Cr depletion levels at special boundaries in irradiated 304 stainless steels were increasing with Σ. The model calculations also showed that the widths of the segregation cusps were decreasing with increasing Σ.

(Received 2003/9/3; Accepted 2003/10/27)

Keywords: grain boundaries, radiation-induced segregation, proton irradiation, radiation effects, theoretical modeling, austenitic stainless steels

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