Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

A review of surface damage/microstructures and their effects on hydrogen/helium retention in tungsten

YG Li, QR Zheng, LM Wei, CG Zhang, Z Zeng - Tungsten, 2020 - Springer
The change in surface damage/microstructures and its effects on the hydrogen (H)
isotope/helium (He) dynamic behavior are the key factors for investigating issues of tungsten …

Multiscale modelling of the interaction of hydrogen with interstitial defects and dislocations in BCC tungsten

A De Backer, DR Mason, C Domain… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a fusion tokamak, the plasma of hydrogen isotopes is in contact with tungsten at the
surface of a divertor. In the bulk of the material, the hydrogen concentration profile tends …

Hydrogen embrittlement of high-strength marine steel as a weld joint in artificial seawater under cathodic polarization

H Ma, L Sun, H Luo, X Li - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behavior of E690 high-strength steel as a weld joint was
investigated in artificial seawater. The most vulnerable location and microstructure to HE …

Trap** of hydrogen and helium at dislocations in tungsten: an ab initio study

A Bakaev, P Grigorev, D Terentyev, A Bakaeva… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The interaction of H or He atoms with a core of edge and screw dislocations (SDs), with
Burgers vector a 0/2$\left\langle {\rm 1}\,{\rm 1}\,{\rm 1}\right\rangle $, is studied by means of …

Deep neural network potential for simulating hydrogen blistering in tungsten

XY Wang, YN Wang, K Xu, FZ Dai, HF Liu, GH Lu… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Tungsten is a promising candidate for the plasma-facing material in fusion energy facilities,
however, the low-energy, high-flux hydrogen plasma causes severe blistering in tungsten …

Interatomic potential to study plastic deformation in tungsten-rhenium alloys

G Bonny, A Bakaev, D Terentyev… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, an interatomic potential for the W-Re system is fitted and benchmarked against
experimental and density functional theory (DFT) data, of which part are generated in this …

Hydrogen interaction with vacancy defects in tungsten: Unraveling the influence on diffusion mechanisms and mechanical properties

A Alivaliollahi, G Alahyarizadeh, A Minuchehr - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates hydrogen diffusion in tungsten at high temperatures using molecular
dynamics simulations. It explores the effect of different hydrogen concentrations on diffusion …

Microstructure and helium irradiation performance of high purity tungsten processed by cold rolling

Z Chen, W Han, J Yu, L Kecskes, K Zhu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work aims to investigate the effects of confined cold rolling on the evolution of
microstructure, hardness, and helium irradiation performance of high purity tungsten (W) …

Stabilization of defects by the presence of hydrogen in tungsten: simultaneous W-ion damaging and D-atom exposure

EA Hodille, S Markelj, T Schwarz-Selinger… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The possible mutual influence and synergistic effect between defect production and the
presence of hydrogen isotopes in the crystal lattice of tungsten is studied. For this purpose …