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Electrochemical Evaluation of Radiation-Induced Segregation in Austenitic Stainless Steels with Oversize Solute Addition

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Effect of different levels of oversize element, cerium, on radiation-induced segregation (RIS) in type 316 stainless steel was investigated. The effect of prior cold-work on RIS was also investigated. Samples with 0.00, 0.01, and 0.04 wt.% cerium were irradiated to 0.70 dpa using 4.8 MeV protons at 300 °C. Characterization of proton-irradiated specimens was carried out using electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation (EPR) test followed by atomic force microscopic examination. The specimen with prior cold-work (without cerium addition) showed the lowest EPR values indicating the lowest chromium depletion in this material. The specimen with 0.04 wt.% cerium showed the lower EPR value as compared to the specimen with 0.01 wt.% Ce. The irradiated specimen with prior cold-work showed linear features after the EPR tests and such features were attributed to decoration of dislocations, generated due to prior cold-work, by point defects produced during irradiation. The resistance to RIS offered by cold-work (linear features) has been more effective as compared to that by the addition of oversize solute addition.

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  1. Materials Science Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, 400085, India

    Parag M. Ahmedabadi & V. Kain

  2. PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, India

    M. Gupta

  3. Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    I. Samajdar

  4. Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India

    S. Sharma & P. Bhagwat

  5. Department of Quantum Science and Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Y. Watanabe

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Ahmedabadi, P.M., Kain, V., Gupta, M. et al. Electrochemical Evaluation of Radiation-Induced Segregation in Austenitic Stainless Steels with Oversize Solute Addition. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 21, 2472–2479 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-012-0201-8

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