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Toyama, Takeshi*; Tanno, Takashi; Yano, Yasuhide; Inoue, Koji*; Nagai, Yasuyoshi*; Otsuka, Satoshi; Miyazawa, Takeshi; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Onuma, Masato*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 599, p.155252_1 - 155252_14, 2024/10
We investigated the stability of oxide nano particles in oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) steel, which is a promising candidate material for next-generation reactors, under neutron irradiation at high temperature to high doses. MA957, a 14Cr-ODS steel, was irradiated with Joyo in Japan Atomic Energy Agency under irradiation conditions of 130 dpa at 502
C, 154 dpa at 589C, and 158 dpa at 709C. Three-dimensional atom probe (3D-AP) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) observation were performed to characterize the oxide particles in the ODS steels. A high number density of Y-Ti-O particle was observed in the unirradiated and irradiated samples. Almost no change in the morphology of the oxide particles, i.e. average diameter, number density, and chemical composition, has been observed in the samples irradiated to 130 dpa at 502C and to 154 dpa at 589C. A slight decrease in number density was observed in the sample irradiated to 158 dpa at 709CC. The hardness of any of the irradiated samples was almost unchanged from that of the unirradiated sample. It was revealed that the oxide particles existed stable, and the strength of the material was sufficiently maintained even after being neutron irradiated to high dose of 
160 dpa at high temperature up to 700C. A part of this study includes the results of MEXT Innovative Nuclear Research and Development Program Grant Number JPMXD0219214482.
C to 1000CImagawa, Yuya; Hashidate, Ryuta; Miyazawa, Takeshi; Onizawa, Takashi; Otsuka, Satoshi; Yano, Yasuhide; Tanno, Takashi; Kaito, Takeji; Onuma, Masato*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 61(6), p.762 - 777, 2024/06
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been developing 9Cr-oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel as a fuel cladding material for sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs). Previous studies have formulated the creep rupture equation for 650C to 850C. However, little data have been obtained above 850C, and no equation has been formulated. This study conducted creep tests to evaluate creep strength at 700C to 1000C. Two creep test methods, the internal pressure and ring creep tests under development, were used, and the validation of the ring creep test method was conducted. The results showed that 9Cr-ODS steel undergoes almost no strength change due to the matrix's phase transformation, and a single equation can express a creep rupture strength from 700C to 1000C. In validating the ring creep test method, analysis clarified the effect of stress concentration on the specimen. Plastic deformation occurs at high initial stress and may lead to early rupture. The results will be essential for future creep testing and evaluation of neutron-irradiated 9Cr-ODS steel.
titanium alloys strong and ductileChong, Y.*; Gholizadeh, R.*; Guo, B.*; Tsuru, Tomohito; Zhao, G.*; Yoshida, Shuhei*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Godfrey, A.*; Tsuji, Nobuhiro*
Acta Materialia, 257, p.119165_1 - 119165_14, 2023/09
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：90.07(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Metastable titanium alloys possess excellent strain-hardening capability, but suffer from a low yield strength. As a result, numerous attempts have been made to strengthen this important structural material in the last decade. Here, we explore the contributions of grain refinement and interstitial additions in raising the yield strength of a Ti-12Mo (wt.%) metastable titanium alloy. Surprisingly, rather than strengthening the material, grain refinement actually lowers the ultimate tensile strength in this alloy. This unexpected and anomalous behavior is attributed to a significant enhancement in strain-induced 
martensite phase transformation, where in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis reveals, for the first time, that this phase is much softer than the parent phase. Instead, a combination of both oxygen addition and grain refinement is found to realize an unprecedented strength-ductility synergy in a Ti-12Mo-0.3O (wt.%) alloy. The advantageous effect of oxygen solutes in this ternary alloy is twofold. Firstly, solute oxygen largely suppresses strain-induced transformation to the martensite phase, even in a fine-grained microstructure, thus avoiding the softening effect of excessive amounts of martensite. Secondly, oxygen solutes readily segregate to twin boundaries, as revealed by atom probe tomography. This restricts the growth of 
deformation twins, thereby promoting more extensive twin nucleation, leading to enhanced microstructural refinement. The insights from our work provide a cost-effective rationale for the design of strong yet tough metastable titanium alloys, with significant implications for more widespread use of this high strength-to-weight structural material.
Otsuka, Satoshi; Shizukawa, Yuta; Tanno, Takashi; Imagawa, Yuya; Hashidate, Ryuta; Yano, Yasuhide; Onizawa, Takashi; Kaito, Takeji; Onuma, Masato*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(3), p.288 - 298, 2023/03
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：74.52(Nuclear Science & Technology)JAEA has been developing 9Cr-oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) tempered martensitic steel(TMS) as a candidate material for the fuel cladding tubes of sodium-cooled fast reactors(SFRs). The reliable prediction of in-reactor creep-rupture strength is critical for implementing the 9Cr-ODS TMS cladding tube in the SFR. This study investigated the quantitative correlation between the creep properties of 9Cr-ODS TMS at 700 C and the dispersions of nanosized oxides by analyzing the creep data and the material's nanostructure. The possibility of deriving a formula for estimating the in-reactor creep properties of 9Cr-ODS TMSs based on an analysis of the nanostructure of neutron-irradiated 9Cr-ODS TMSs was also discussed. The creep properties of 9Cr-ODS TMS at 700 C closely correlated with the dispersion of nanosized oxide particles. The correlation between creep-rupture lives and nanosized oxide particle dispersion was determined using existing creep models. The elucidation of correlation between the stress exponent of secondary creep rate and the nanostructure is essential to enhance future modeling reliability and formulation.
Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Kurino, Koichi*; Yano, Yasuhide; Otsuka, Satoshi; Toyama, Takeshi*; Onuma, Masato*; Nakashima, Hideharu*
Tetsu To Hagane, 109(3), p.189 - 200, 2023/03
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) ferritic steel, a candidate material for fast reactor fuel cladding, has low thermal expansion, good thermal conductivity, and excellent resistance to irradiation damage and high temperature strength. The origin of the excellent high-temperature strength lies in the dispersion of fine oxides. In this study, creep tests at 700 or 750C, which are close to the operating temperatures of fast reactors, and high-temperature tensile tests at 900 to 1350 C, which simulate accident conditions, were conducted on 9Cr ODS ferritic steels, M11 and MP23, and 12Cr ODS ferritic steel, F14, to confirm the growth behavior of oxides. In the M11 and F14 creep test samples, there was little oxide growth or decrease in number density from the initial state, indicating that dispersion strengthening by oxides was effective during deformation. After creep deformation of F14, the development of dislocation substructures such as dislocation walls and subgrain boundaries was hardly observed, and mobile dislocations were homogeneously distributed in the grains. The dislocation density increased with increasing stress during the creep test. In the high-temperature ring tensile tests of MP23 and F14, the strength of both steels decreased at higher temperatures. In MP23, elongation decreased with increasing test temperature from 900 to 1100 C, but increased at 1200 C, decreased drastically at 1250 C, and increased again at 1300 C. In F14, elongation decreased with increasing temperature. It was inferred that the formation of the 
-ferrite phase was responsible for this complex change in mechanical properties of MP23 from 1200 to 1300 C.
Chong, Y.*; Gholizadeh, R.*; Tsuru, Tomohito; Zhang, R.*; Inoue, Koji*; Gao, W.*; Godfrey, A.*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Morris, J. W. Jr.*; Minor, A. M.*; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 14, p.404_1 - 404_11, 2023/02
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：89.86(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Interstitial oxygen embrittles titanium, particularly at cryogenic temperatures, which necessitates a stringent control of oxygen content in fabricating titanium and its alloys. Here, we propose a structural strategy, via grain refinement, to alleviate this problem. Compared to a coarse-grained counterpart that is extremely brittle at 77K, the uniform elongation of an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure (grain size 2.0 
m) in Ti-0.3wt.%O was successfully increased by an order of magnitude, maintaining an ultrahigh yield strength inherent to the UFG microstructure. This unique strength-ductility synergy in UFG Ti-0.3wt.%O was achieved via the combined effects of diluted grain boundary segregation of oxygen that helps to improve the grain boundary cohesive energy and enhanced 
dislocation activities that contribute to the excellent strain hardening ability. The present strategy could not only boost the potential applications of high strength Ti-O alloys at low temperatures, but could also be applied to other alloy systems, where interstitial solution hardening results into an undesirable loss of ductility.
Adachi, Nozomu*; Matsuo, Yasutaka*; Todaka, Yoshikazu*; Fujimoto, Mikiya*; Hino, Masahiro*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Oba, Yojiro; Shiihara, Yoshinori*; Umeno, Yoshitaka*; Nishida, Minoru*
Tribology International, 155, p.106781_1 - 106781_9, 2021/03
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：61.14(Engineering, Mechanical)Tokunaga, Tomonori*; Watanabe, Hideo*; Yoshida, Naoaki*; Nagasaka, Takuya*; Kasada, Ryuta*; Lee, Y.-J.*; Kimura, Akihiko*; Tokitani, Masayuki*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Hinoki, Tatsuya*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 442(1-3), p.S287 - S291, 2013/11
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：63.81(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Harada, Erika*; Yamasaki, Shigeto*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Otsuka, Satoshi; Kaito, Takeji
Kashika Joho Gakkai-Shi, 31(122), p.98 - 103, 2011/07
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
Kyushu Daigaku Cho Koatsu Denkenshitsu Kenkyu Hokoku, 32, 2 Pages, 2008/08
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
Materia, 47(6), P. 301, 2008/06
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
Materia, 46(12), P. 800, 2007/12
High Cr ferritic steels bearing V have high creep strength due to the precipitation hardening. In order to enhance the efficiency of the precipitation hardening, the elemental components, shape and distribution of the precipitates should be comprehended. In this study, we investigated that of the precipitates in the 10Cr ferritic steel bearing V using the STEM-EDS analysis and the three-dimensional electron tomography (3D-ET) observation. The two types of precipitates on the lath boundaries could be observed, which were lump-shaped precipitates and film-shaped precipitates. They had the different elemental component. From the 3D-ET observation, it revealed that the film-shaped precipitates covered the lath boundary widely. Therefore, the film-shaped precipitates are expected to be effective for the stabilization of martensitic microstructure during the creep deformation.
Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Yoshida, Yu*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
Kyushu Daigaku Cho Koatsu Denkenshitsu Kenkyu Hokoku, 31, p.78 - 79, 2007/00
The effects of V and Nb on creep strength of high Cr ferritic steel were investigated based on the observation results using STEM. As a result, it is clarified that Nb contributes to the improvement of creep strength by encumber the movement of the lath boundary by fine dispersed precipitation as MX particles and V contributes as film precipitation on the lath boundary.
Yoshida, Yu*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
Tainetsu Kinzoku Zairyo Dai-123-Iinkai Kenkyu Hokoku, 47(10), p.109 - 113, 2006/07
This paper studies the influence of V and Nb on the creep strength and behavior of high Cr ferritic steels. A series of creep tests of 11 steels having various V and Nb contents is conducted. The test results are analyzed by omega-method and the microstructures of the damaged specimens are examined by EBSP. As a result, it is shown that omega-method gives good prediction of creep lives of the steels and that the influence of V and Nb on the omega-parameters is significant. In addition, it is clarified that the martensitic microstructure of the steels depends upon Nb content.
Yoshida, Yu*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
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Nb added 12Cr-1Mo steelsYoshida, Yu*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
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Oshibuchi, Kota*; Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Otsuka, Satoshi
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Hata, Satoshi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
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Mitsuhara, Masatoshi*; Yoshida, Yu*; Ikeda, Kenichi*; Nakashima, Hideharu*; Wakai, Takashi
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