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Effect of hydrogen on grain boundary migration in tungsten

  • Yi Yu
  • , Xiao Lin Shu
  • , Yi Nan Liu
  • , Liang Liang Niu
  • , Shuo Jin
  • , Fei Gao
  • , Guang Hong Lu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Motivated by a grain boundary (GB) healing mechanism that GB turns into a mobile sink through migration to eliminate the vacancies in a bulk, we have further investigated the influence of the retained hydrogen (H) on the GB migration in tungsten using a molecular dynamics simulation. We show that H hinders the GB migration at different H concentrations and temperatures, and such friction of GB migration due to the presence of H increases with the H concentration and decreases with temperature. We demonstrate that H follows the GB-migration as the temperature is higher than 300 K. Most importantly, the presence of H induces a disordering of GB, which affects the GB migration significantly.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-9
Number of pages9
JournalScience China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
Volume58
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jul 2015

Keywords

  • disordering
  • hydrogen
  • migration
  • molecular dynamics
  • tungsten grain boundary

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