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The proton irradiation-induced hardening effect of dislocations in C35M FeCrAl alloy on glide resistance was quantified by in-situ micropillar compression testing in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Irradiation tests with a proton energy of 2 MeV were conducted at room temperature, producing plateau damage of 0.01 and 0.1 displacement per atom (dpa), respectively, and generating high density of dislocation loops with fine size (<10 nm). Single-crystal micropillars were prepared with maximizing Schmid factor for a specific slip system while minimizing the others and then compressed to active one specific slip system to measure the critical resolve shear stress (CRSS) of {110}<111> and {112}<111> slip systems, respectively. The CRSS for these two slip systems increases with increasing irradiation dose. {112}<111> slip system shows larger hardening than {110}<111> slip system. Microstructure characterization after deformation indicates that the hardening effect originates from the pinning effect of irradiation-induced defects on moving dislocations.
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We acknowledge financial support by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Energy University Program through the NEUP Project 18-15703 under the Grant No. DE-NE0008787. The research was performed in the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, supported by the National Science Foundation under Award ECCS: 1542182 and the Nebraska Research Initiative.
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Wei, B., Xie, D., Wu, W. et al. Quantifying the Glide Resistance to Dislocations in Proton-Irradiated FeCrAl Alloy. JOM 74, 4035–4041 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05350-9
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