TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fang, Xufei
AU  - Kreter, Arkadi
AU  - Rasinski, Marcin
AU  - Kirchlechner, Christoph
AU  - Brinckmann, Steffen
AU  - Linsmeier, Christian
AU  - Dehm, Gerhard
TI  - Hydrogen embrittlement of tungsten induced by deuterium plasma: Insights from nanoindentation tests
JO  - Journal of materials research
VL  - 33
IS  - 20
SN  - 2044-5326
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
M1  - FZJ-2018-07340
SP  - 3530 - 3536
PY  - 2018
AB  - Hydrogen exposure has been found to result in metal embrittlement. In this work, we use nanoindentation to study the mechanical properties of polycrystalline tungsten subjected to deuterium plasma exposure. For the purpose of comparison, nanoindentation tests on exposed and unexposed reference tungsten were carried out. The results exhibit a decrease in the pop-in load and an increase in hardness on the exposed tungsten sample after deuterium exposure. No significant influence of grain orientation on the pop-in load was observed. After a desorption time of td ≥ 168 h, both the pop-in load and hardness exhibit a recovering trend toward the reference state without deuterium exposure. The decrease of pop-in load is explained using the defactant theory, which suggests that the presence of deuterium facilitates the dislocation nucleation. The increase of hardness is discussed based on two possible mechanisms of the defactant theory and hydrogen pinning of dislocations.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000452651700018
DO  - DOI:10.1557/jmr.2018.305
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/858468
ER  -