TY  - JOUR
AU  - Steudel, Isabel
AU  - Klimov, N. S.
AU  - Linke, Jochen
AU  - Loewenhoff, Thorsten
AU  - Pintsuk, Gerald
AU  - Pitts, R. A.
AU  - Wirtz, Marius
TI  - Melt Layer Formation in Stainless Steel Under Transient Thermal Loads
JO  - Journal of nuclear materials
VL  - 463
SN  - 0022-3115
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2015-06875
SP  - 731-734
PY  - 2015
AB  - To investigate the performance of stainless steel under transient thermal events, such as photon pulses caused by disruptions mitigated by massive gas injection (MGI), the material has been exposed to electron beam loads with ITER relevant power densities slightly above the melting threshold (245 MW/m2) and a pulse duration of 3 ms (Sugihara et al., 2012; Klimov et al., 2013; Pitts et al., 2013). The samples were manufactured from different steel grades with slightly modified chemical composition. To investigate the effect of repetitive surface heat loads on the melting process and the melt motion, identical heat pulses in the range of 100–3000 were applied. All tested materials showed intense melt-induced surface roughening, driven by repeated shallow surface melting up to several ten micrometre and fast re-solidification with epitaxial grain growth. During the liquid phase, melt motion induced by cohesive forces results in the formation of a wavy surface structure with apexes. Further experiments have been performed to study the effects of non-perpendicular surfaces or leading edges.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000358467200154
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.070
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/276436
ER  -