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Enhanced thermal-mechanical properties of rolled tungsten bulk material reinforced by in situ nanosized Y-Zr-O particles

  • Gang Yao (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology) ;
  • Hong-Yu Chen (College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology) ;
  • Lai-Ma Luo (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology) ;
  • Xiang Zan (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology) ;
  • Yu-Cheng Wu (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology)
  • Received : 2023.07.02
  • Accepted : 2024.01.14
  • Published : 2024.06.25
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Abstract

Tungsten is the most promising plasma facing material for fusion reactors. Rolled W-Y2(Zr)O3 bulk material has been successfully produced in this study for future fusion engineering applications. The introduction of Zr is conducive to the refinement of the second phase particles. Nano-sized Y-Zr-O particles are observed in the powder and bulk samples. Related results show that the Y-Zr-O particle dispersion distribution improves the heat load resistance of W-Y2(Zr)O3 composite material. For four-point bend experiments in the same sampling direction, the DBTT of W-Y2(Zr)O3 composite materials is lower compared to the pure tungsten. For the same material, the DBTT of the material was selected for testing along the RD direction is lower compared to the material was selected for testing along the TD direction. Findings of this study provide suggestions for the subsequent industrial preparation of nanoscale particle-doped tungsten materials.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFE03120002, 2022YFE03140001), the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2308085QE154, 2208085ME122), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2023HGQB0164), the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (GZC20230656).

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