Ermile Gaganidze Ferenc Gillemot Ildiko Szenthe Mike Gorley Michael Rieth Eberhard Diegele
The current paper reports the work of the EUROfusion Material Database and Handbook group within the MAT-EDDI (Materials – Engineering Data and Design Integration) subproject of the EUROfusion consortium. A special emphasis is put on the building of the EUROfusion RAFM steel database accounting around 3000 raw materials data records. A dat…
Preprint PublishedDavid Andres Roberto Lacalle Sergio Cicero Jose A. Alvarez
The Master Curve approach allows the full characterisation of the ductile to brittle transition region (DBTR) of ferritic steels to be performed with a reduced number of tests. In this paper, the approach has been combined with the application of the small punch (SP) tests. Modified SP specimens have been successfully employed to estimate the fract…
Preprint PublishedLee Packer P. Batistoni S. C. Bradnam S. Conroy Z. Ghani M. R. Gilbert E. Laszynska I. Lengar C.R.Nobs M. Pillon S. Popovichev P. Raj I.E. Stamatelatos T. Vasilopoulou A. Wojcik-Gargula R. Worrall JET Contributors
This paper reports new activities conducted as part of the JET technology programme under the WP-JET3 ACT sub-project collaboration. The aim of the sub-project is to take advantage of the significant 14 MeV neutron fluence expected during JET operations to irradiate samples of materials that will used in the manufacturing of main ITER tokamak compo…
Preprint Publishedyiqiang wang Mike Gorley Saurabh Kabra Elizabeth Surrey
Eurofer 97 is the main structural material targeted for the DEMO reactors which will be operated under magnetic fields. It is therefore imperative to understand the effect of magnetic fields on the mechanical properties of the Eurofer 97. Here we preform 30 uniaxial tensile tests with and without a 1.5 T magnetic field at room temperature. The stat…
Preprint PublishedMichael Kovari Arne Kallenbach Mattia Siccinio
We have implemented a one-dimensional scrape-off layer (SOL) model in the PROCESS fusion reactor systems code. It allows reactor scenarios to be obtained while limiting both the plasma temperature of the SOL at the entrance to the sheath at the divertor target, and the power density on the target. To take account of cross-field transport in an …
Preprint PublishedMatti Coleman Y. Hoerstensmeyer F. Cismondi
One of the overarching goals of a DEMO-class device is to demonstrate tritium self-sufficiency in a fusion power plant for the first time. A future power reactor will necessarily require a start-up inventory of tritium, mT start, before commencing fully fledged D-T operations for electricity production. In Europe, it is also presently cons…
Preprint PublishedJonathan Shimwell Remi Delaporte-Mathurin Jean-Charles Jaboulay Julien Aubert Chris Richardson Chris Bowman Andrew Davis Jamie Bernardi Sikander Yasin Xiaoying Tang
Breeding blankets are designed to ensure tritium self-sufficiency in deuterium- tritium fusion power plants. In addition to this, breeder blankets play a vital role in shielding key components of the reactor, and provide the main source of heat which will ultimately be used to generate electricity. The design of blankets is critical to the success …
Preprint PublishedLlion Evans L. Margetts P.D. Lee C.A.M. Butler E. Surrey
Functional materials’ properties are influenced by microstructures which can be changed during manufacturing. Experimental characterisation is often time consuming and expensive. A technique is presented which digitises graphite foam via X-ray tomography and converts it into image-based models to determine properties in silico. By simulating a la…
Preprint PublishedMatti Coleman S. McIntosh
The European DEMO fusion power reactor (EU-DEMO) is still in the pre-conceptual design phase. The design strategy for the EU-DEMO hinges on investigating multiple reactor designs and technologies in parallel, progressively down-selecting these in the mid-2020’s, in preparation for the conceptual design phase. The present implementation of the str…
Preprint Publishedyiqiang wang Bin Liu Kun Yan Minshi Wang Saurabh Kabra Yu-Lung Chiu David Dye Peter D. Lee Yong Liu Biao Cai
The deformation responses at 77 and 293 K of a FeCoNiCr high-entropy alloy, produced by a powder metallurgy route, are investigated using in situ neutron diffraction and correlative transmission electron microscopy. The strength and ductility of the alloy are significant improved at cryogenic temperatures. The true ultimate tensile strengt…
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