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A study was conducted to better understand the roles of irradiation defects and cavities on the mechanical properties of 304 stainless steel. Micropillars were fabricated using focused ion beam techniques, and pillars were heat treated at 300°C to serve as a control, irradiated in situ to 5 dpa with 1 MeV krypton ions at 300°C, or pre-implanted with a specific amount of helium and then irradiated. Micropillars were compression tested in situ in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) using a picoindenter. The load–displacement curves were converted into stress–strain curves and mechanical properties were extracted. Irradiation hardening was observed with the yield stress being the highest in the pillar implanted with the least helium. TEM and energy-dispersive spectroscopy analysis showed the presence of irradiation-induced defects in krypton-irradiated samples and the presence of cavities.
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This work was performed in part at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) at North Carolina State University, supported by the State of North Carolina and the National Science Foundation (Award No. ECCS-1542015). The AIF is a member of the North Carolina Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN), a site in the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). The authors also acknowledge funding from NSFDMR Award No. 1807822. This work was partially performed at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, which is supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The authors thank Pete Baldo, Ed Ryan, Jing Hu, Meimei Li, and Mark Kirk at the IVEM facility for their assistance.
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Schoell, R., Frazer, D., Zheng, C. et al. In Situ Micropillar Compression Tests of 304 Stainless Steels After Ion Irradiation and Helium Implantation. JOM 72, 2778–2785 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-020-04127-2
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