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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Mechanism of formation and growth of interstitial loops in ferritic materials
Jaime Marian1, Brian D Wirth, J Manuel Perlado
1Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-353, Livermore, California 94550, USA. marian1@llnl.gov
Abstract:
We propose a comprehensive mechanism for the formation and growth of <100> interstitial loops in alpha-Fe. This mechanism reconciles long-standing experimental observations of these defects in irradiated ferritic materials with recent atomistic simulations of collision cascades and defect cluster properties in Fe, in which highly mobile 1 / 2<111> clusters are seen to be the dominant feature. Hence, this work provides one of the necessary links to unify simulation with experiments in alpha-Fe and ferritic alloys subject to high-energy particle irradiation.
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