Modeling of Late Blooming Phases and Precipitation Kinetics in Aging Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Steels

Zhang, Yongfeng ; Chakraborty, Pritam ; Biner, S. Bulent

Idaho National Laboratory

关键词: 99 General And Miscellaneous Reactor Pressure Vessel;    Reactor Pressure Vessel;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1111015
RP-ID  :  INL/EXT-13-30267
RP-ID  :  DE-AC07-05ID14517
RP-ID  :  1111015

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The principle work at the atomic scale is to develop a predictive quantitative model for the microstructure evolution of RPV steels under thermal aging and neutron radiation. We have developed an AKMC method for the precipitation kinetics in bcc-Fe, with Cu, Ni, Mn and Si being the alloying elements. In addition, we used MD simulations to provide input parameters (if not available in literature). MMC simulations were also carried out to explore the possible segregation/precipitation morphologies at the lattice defects. First we briefly describe each of the simulation algorithms, then will present our results.