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- 2024Modelling the Effect of Residual Stresses on Damage Accumulation Using a Coupled Crystal Plasticity Phase Field Fracture Approach
- 2023Interaction of monoclinic ZrO2 grain boundaries with oxygen vacancies, Sn and Nb - implications for the corrosion of Zr alloy fuel cladding
- 2023Bridging Length Scales Efficiently Through Surrogate Modellingcitations
- 2022Capturing the Temperature Dependence of Cleavage Fracture Toughness in the Ductile-to-Brittle Transition Regime in Ferritic Steels using an Improved Engineering Local Approach
- 2021Incorporation of obstacle hardening into local approach to cleavage fracture to predict temperature effects in the ductile to brittle transition regimecitations
- 2021The Importance of Substrate Grain Orientation on Local Oxide Texture and Corrosion Performance in α-Zr Alloyscitations
- 2019Using local approaches to fracture to quantify the local conditions during the ductile-to-brittle transition in ferritic steels
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The Importance of Substrate Grain Orientation on Local Oxide Texture and Corrosion Performance in α-Zr Alloys
Abstract
Understanding the in-reactor corrosion behavior of zirconium alloys is essential for optimizing the lifetime of fuel assemblies. Recent advances in available experimental methods have enabled the characterization of oxide morphology, crystallography, and chemical heterogeneity with unprecedented detail for both autoclave and reactor formed oxides. Advanced high-resolution techniques have already improved the understanding of zirconium alloy corrosion performance. However, they are carried out on small volumes of material and require preparation of thin samples, which can lead to changes in the phase distribution in the oxide and often show varied results from different regions of a single bulk specimen. The present study utilizes high-spatial-resolution electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) performed on bulk samples to produce spatially resolved microtexture data from nanograined zirconium oxide over a large area, which has not previously been possible. This advanced method of plan-view oxide texture analysis, alongside targeted focused ion beam cross-section measurements and substrate EBSD analysis, has revealed well-defined regions of monoclinic oxide grains that exhibit different textures depending on the orientation of the substrate grain on which they have formed. The observed variations in oxide texture have significant implications on any conclusions drawn solely from methods that are limited to the characterization of small areas—especially where sampling areas are smaller than the substrate grain size. Two competing mechanisms of oxide grain growth and nucleation are discussed, and detailed EBSD analysis illustrates a correlation between local oxide texture and corrosion rate. This analysis is performed on specimens of autoclave-tested Zircaloy-2 and ZIRLO and highlights differences in oxide texture development between the two alloys, indicating the significance of material composition and thermomechanical processing on corrosion behavior.