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Nagase, Fumihisa; Sakamoto, Kan*; Yamashita, Shinichiro
Corrosion Reviews, 35(3), p.129 - 140, 2017/08
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：53.21(Electrochemistry)As the lessons learnt from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, advanced cladding materials are being developed to enhance accident tolerance comparing with conventional zirconium alloys. The present paper reviews the progress of the development and summarizes subjects to be solved for the enhanced accident-tolerance fuel cladding, focusing on performance degradation under various corrosive environmental conditions that should be considered in designing the LWR fuel.
Yamaguchi, Masatake; Ebihara, Kenichi; Itakura, Mitsuhiro
Corrosion Reviews, 33(6), p.547 - 557, 2015/11
A multiscale analysis has been conducted on hydrogen-induced intergranular cracking at ambient temperature in medium strength (840 MPa) Ni-Cr steel with antimony, tin, and phosphorous segregation. Combining first-principles calculations and fracture mechanics experiments, a multiscale relationship between threshold stress intensity factor (
) and cohesive energy of grain boundary (the ideal work of interfacial separation, 2
) was revealed. The was found to decrease rapidly under a certain threshold of 2, where the 2 decreases mainly by mobile hydrogen segregation on fracture surfaces. This segregation is considered to arise during formation of the fracture surfaces under thermodynamic equilibrium in slow crack growth. The resulting strong decohesion probably makes it difficult to emit dislocations at microcrack tip region, leading to a large reduction of stress intensity factor. Our analysis based on this mobile hydrogen decohesion demonstrates that the decreases dramatically within a low and narrow range of hydrogen content in iron lattice in high-strength steels.
