Experimental setup for study of mechanical performance of materials in liquid Pb-16Li and first results

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26722445%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000010" target="_blank" >RIV/26722445:_____/23:N0000010 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379623000583" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379623000583</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113474" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113474</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental setup for study of mechanical performance of materials in liquid Pb-16Li and first results

Original language description

Dual Coolant Lithium Lead (DCLL) Breeding Blanket, which is using the eutectic lead-lithium alloy (Pb-16Li) as tritium breeder, neutron moderator and coolant, is being developed in the frame of the EUROfusion project. Flow channel inserts (FCI) are insulating components embedded along the Pb-16Li channels inside the DCLL breeding blanket modules developed to minimize the magnetohydrodynamic pressure drop and heat losses. There is an effort to modify the originally designed steel-ceramic-steel layered structure of FCI by eliminating the steel protective layer leading to simple steel-ceramic structure. In this arrangement, the ceramic is directly exposed to liquid Pb-16Li. Demanding operating conditions of the DCLL blanket, in particular elevated temperatures, may give a rise to thermomechanical stresses leading to component failure. Therefore, the assessment of mechanical behaviour of the material in direct contact with Pb-16Li is of primary interest.To study the mechanical properties of the material exposed to corrosive environment of Pb-16Li at elevated temperatures, a dedicated experimental setup was designed. Three-point flexural test is adopted to evaluate the flexural stress-strain material response. Since the experimental procedure is performed in liquid Pb-16Li at high temperatures with an inert atmosphere, the mechanical test takes place in an isolated testing chamber filled with molten Pb-16Li transferred from the melting chamber prior the mechanical test. A specificity of the presented facility is its capability of material testing of three samples within one testing procedure in Pb-16Li at temper-atures up to 650 degrees C.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20501 - Materials engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/9D22001" target="_blank" >9D22001: Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon Europe through a joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Fusion Engineering and Design

ISSN

0920-3796

e-ISSN

1873-7196

Volume of the periodical

189

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

1-4

UT code for WoS article

000927543700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85147105836