Prediction of the Charpy transition temperature in highly irradiated ferritic steels

Prediction of the Charpy transition temperature in highly irradiated ferritic steels

Prediction of the Charpy transition temperature in highly irradiated ferritic steels 150 150 UKAEA Opendata

Prediction of the Charpy transition temperature in highly irradiated ferritic steels

A prediction has been made of the Charpy ductile-brittle transition temperature at high irradiation levels from a dataset of 459 low-activation ferritic/martensitic steels. It follows a similar study of the yield stress of some 1811 similar alloys (Windsor et al , Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 16 (2008) 025005) Neural networks have previously been used by Cottrell et al (Journal of Nuclear Materials 367-370, 2007, 603-609) to model the Charpy ductile-brittle transition temperature of these alloys. The same dataset has been used in this study, but has been divided into a training set containing the majority of the dataset with low irradiation levels, and a test set which contains just those alloys which have been irradiated above a given level. For example, some 7.2% of the dataset was irradiated above 20 dpa. Good predictions were made using two different codes and methods. As with the yield stress prediction, the target-driven components method, where linear combinations of the atomic inputs are chosen to reduce the test residual, achieved the best results.

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04/02/2008