Fuel Fabrication Capability WBS 01.02.01.05 - HIP Bonding Experiments Final Report

Dickerson, Patricia O'Donnell¹  Summa, Deborah Ann¹  Liu, Cheng¹  Tucker, Laura Arias¹  Chen, Ching-Fong¹  Aikin, Beverly¹  Aragon, Daniel Adrian¹  Beard, Timothy Vance¹  Montalvo, Joel Dwayne¹  Pena, Maria Isela¹  Dombrowski, David E.¹ 

[1] Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: solid state bonding;    fuel cladding;    hot isostatic pressing;    HIP;    bond strength;    ultrasonic inspection;    U-10Mo;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1184606
RP-ID  :  LA-UR--15-24324
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1184606

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The goals of this project were to demonstrate reliable, reproducible solid state bonding of aluminum 6061 alloy plates together to encapsulate DU-10 wt% Mo surrogate fuel foils. This was done as part of the CONVERT Fuel Fabrication Capability effort in Process Baseline Development . Bonding was done using Hot Isotatic Pressing (HIP) of evacuated stainless steel cans (a.k.a HIP cans) containing fuel plate components and strongbacks. Gross macroscopic measurements of HIP cans prior to HIP and after HIP were used as part of this demonstration, and were used to determine the accuracy of a finitie element model of the HIP bonding process. The quality of the bonding was measured by controlled miniature bulge testing for Al-Al, Al-Zr, and Zr-DU bonds. A special objective was to determine if the HIP process consistently produces good quality bonding and to determine the best characterization techniques for technology transfer.