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考虑温度与辐照耦合作用的离子辐照材料硬度分析模型

HARDNESS ANALYSIS MODEL FOR ION-IRRADIATED MATERIALS CONSIDERING THE COUPLED EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND IRRADIATION

  • 摘要: 核反应堆及核化工设备结构材料长期处于高温与辐照相互耦合的服役环境, 材料硬度表现出显著的温度相关性. 辐照硬化行为预测是构建微观缺陷演化与宏观力学性能退化关联的重要手段, 对材料抗辐照性能提升及工程应用具有重要意义. 本研究在塑性区体积加权框架下, 构建了能够统一描述压痕尺寸效应、辐照损伤梯度与温度效应的材料硬度预测模型. 通过建立温度和辐照剂量双重依赖的响应函数, 将辐照缺陷的梯度分布与热演化动力学同时引入本构方程, 构建了多物理场耦合建模的基础框架,可有效表征基底材料、热微观结构、压痕尺寸效应、辐照缺陷各自的硬化贡献. 基于解耦思想, 提出多物理场模型参数标定方法, 可利用有限实验数据实现对不可测工况的连续预测, 弥补了传统分立拟合方法的不足. 以典型锆合金与镍基合金作为模型材料进行了系统验证, 结果表明: 模型可高精度复现不同温度(298-673 K)与辐照剂量下材料的硬度-深度响应, 同时通过准确描述响应函数m(T)出现的峰值非单调演化特征, 揭示了中温下由缺陷粗化强化与热回复相互竞争主导的硬化机制. 该工作为理解与预测多物理场耦合下的材料辐照硬化行为提供了兼具物理性与鲁棒性的理论工具.

     

    Abstract: Structural materials of nuclear reactors and nuclear chemical equipment have been in a service environment where high temperature and radiation are coupled with each other for a long time, and the material hardness shows significant temperature dependence. The prediction of radiation hardening is an important means to establish the relationship between microscopic defect evolution and macroscopic mechanical property degradation, which is of great significance to the improvement of material radiation resistance and engineering applications. In this work, a material hardness prediction model that can uniformly describe the indentation size effect (ISE), radiation damage gradient and temperature effect was constructed based on the plastic zone volume weighting framework. By establishing a response function that is dually dependent on temperature and irradiation dose, the gradient distribution of irradiation defects and thermal evolution dynamics are simultaneously introduced into the constitutive equation, and a basic framework for multi-physics coupling modeling is constructed, which can effectively characterize the base material, thermal microstructure, ISE, and the respective hardening contributions of irradiation defect. Based on the idea of decoupling, a multi-physics model parameter calibration method is proposed, which can use limited experimental data to achieve continuous prediction of unmeasured working conditions, making up for the shortcomings of traditional discrete fitting methods. Systematic verification was conducted using typical zirconium alloys and nickel-based alloys as model materials. The results show that the model can reproduce the hardness-depth response of materials at different temperatures (298-673 K) and irradiation doses with high accuracy. At the same time, by accurately describing the peak non-monotonic evolution characteristics of the response function m(T), it reveals the hardening mechanism dominated by the competition between defect coarsening and thermal recovery at medium temperatures. This work provides a theoretical tool that is both physical and robust for understanding and predicting the radiation hardening behavior of materials under multi-physics coupling.

     

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