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Hydrogen's influence on reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels' elastic properties: density functional theory combined with experiment

  • Zhu, Sinan (Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University) ;
  • Zhang, Chi (Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University) ;
  • Yang, Zhigang (Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University) ;
  • Wang, Chenchong (Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University)
  • Received : 2017.06.01
  • Accepted : 2017.08.22
  • Published : 2017.12.25
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Abstract

Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steels are widely applied as structural materials in the nuclear industry. To investigate hydrogen's effect on RAFM steels' elastic properties and the mechanism of that effect, a procedure of first principles simulation combined with experiment was designed. Density functional theory models were established to simulate RAFM steels' elastic status before and after hydrogen's insertion. Also, experiment was designed to measure the Young's modulus of RAFM steel samples with and without hydrogen charging. Both simulation and experiment showed that the solubility of hydrogen in RAFM steels would decrease the Young's modulus. The effect of hydrogen on RAFM steels' Young's modulus was more significant in water-quenched steels than it was in tempering steels. This indicated that defects inside martensite, considered to be hydrogen traps, could decrease the cohesive energy of the matrix and lead to a decrease of the Young's modulus after hydrogen insertion.

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