Laser melting of spark plasma-sintered zirconium carbide: Thermophysical properties of a generation IV very high-temperature reactor material

International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 316-326

  Jackson, Heather F ^a   Jayaseelan, Daniel D ^a   Lee, William E ^a   Reece, Michael J ^b   Inam, Fawad ^b   Manara, Dario ^c   Casoni, Carlo Perinetti ^c   De Bruycker, Franck ^c   Boboridis, Konstantinos ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; DENDRITIC MICROSTRUCTURE; GAS POROSITY; GENERATION IV; LASER MELTING; LIQUIDUS; MEAN VALUES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; PULSED LASER HEATING; RELATIVE DENSITY; SINTERED CERAMICS; SPARK PLASMA; THERMAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; ZIRCONIUM CARBIDE;

DENDRIMERS; ELECTRIC SPARKS; LASER HEATING; MELTING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SINTERED CARBIDES; SPARK PLASMA SINTERING; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ZIRCONIUM;

ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77951850284     PISSN: 1546542X     EISSN: 17447402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2009.02434.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. U.S. DOE Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee and the Generation IV International Forum. A Technology Roadmap for Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, 2002. Available at (accessed 23 January 2009).
2. L. E. Toth, Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides, Academic Press
3. E. K. Storms The Refractory Carbides Refractory Materials: A Series of Monographs, Vol. 2. ed., J. Margrave. Academic Press
4. A. I. Gusev, A. A. Rempel G. P. Shveikin Radiation Damage Resistance of Materials and Nonstoichiometry Dokl. Phys. Chem., 357 373 376 (1997). (Pubitemid 127723953)
5. D. Gosset, M. Dollé, D. Simeone, G. Baldinozzi L. Thomé Structural Behaviour of Nearly Stoichiometric ZrC Under Ion Irradiation Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B, 266 2801 2805 (2008).
6. A. Fernandez-Guillermet Analysis of Thermochemical Properties and Phase Stability in the Zirconium-Carbon System J. Alloys Compd., 217 69 89 (1995).
7. J. O. Andersson, T. Helander, L. Höglund, P. F. Shi B. Sundman Thermo-Calc and DICTRA, Computational Tools for Materials Science Calphad, 26 273 312 (2001).
8. R. V. Sara, C. E. Lowell R. T. Doloff. "Research Study to Determine the Phase Equilibrium Relations of Selected Metal Carbides at High Temperatures," Report no. WADD-TR-60-143, Part 4, National Carbon Company, Parma, OH, 1963.
9. R. V. Sara The System Zirconium-Carbon J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 48 243 247 (1965).
10. E. Rudy, D. P. Harmon C. E. Brukl. "Ternary Phase Equilibria in Transition Metal Boron-Carbon-Silicon Systems, Part 1. Related Binary Systems, Volume 2. Ti-C and Zr-C System," Report no. AFML-TR-65-2, Aerojet-General Corp., Sacramento, CA, 1965.
11. J. Farr, Unpublished work cited by E. K. Storms, "A Critical Review of Refractories," Report no. LAMS-2674, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1962.
12. L. M. Adeslberg, L. H. Cadoff J. M. Tobin Kinetics of the Zirconium-Carbon Reaction at Temperatures above 2000 Trans. Metall. Soc. AIME, 236 972 977 (1966).
13. E. Rudy "Ternary Phase Equilibria in Transition Metal-Boron-Carbon- Silicon Systems, Part 5. Compendium of Phase Diagram Data," Report no. AFML-TR-65-2, Aerojet-General Corp., Sacramento, CA, 1969.
14. Y. P. Zotov R. B. Kotelnikov The Solidus Temperature of Zirconium Carbide in the Homogeneity Region Russ. Metall., 1975 148 150 (1975).
15. E. Rudy G. Progulski. "Ternary Phase Equilibria in Transition Metal-Boron-Carbon-Silicon Systems, Part 3. Special Experimental Techniques, Vol. 2. A Pirani-Furnace for the Precision Determination of the Melting Temperature of Refractory Metallic Substances," Report No. AFML-TR-65-2, Aerojet-General Corp., Sacramento, CA, 1967.
16. D. Manara, C. Ronchi, M. Sheindlin, M. Lewis M. Brykin Melting of Stoichiometric and Hyperstoichiometric Uranium Dioxide J. Nucl. Mater., 342 148 163 (2005). (Pubitemid 40822106)
17. D. Manara, M. Sheindlin, W. Heinz C. Ronchi New Techniques for High-Temperature Melting Measurements in Volatile Refractory Materials Via Laser Surface Heating Rev. Sci. Instrum., 79 113901 (1-11 2008).
18. C. A. Utton, et al Laser Melting of Uranium Carbides, Proceedings of the E-MRS 2008 Spring Meeting Symposium N on Nuclear Materials J. Nucl. Mater., 385 443 449 (2009).
19. B. D. Cullity, Elements of X-Ray Diffraction, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley
20. ASTM E112. Standard Test Method for Determining Average Grain Size, ASTM International
21. M. D. Abramoff, P. J. Magelhaes S. J. Ram Image Processing with ImageJ Biophotonics Int., 11 36 42 (2004).
22. R. E. Bedford, G. Bonnier, H. Maas F. Pavese Recommended Values of Temperature on the International Temperature Scale of 1990 for a Selected Set of Secondary Reference Points Metrologia, 33 133 154 (1996). (Pubitemid 126568403)
23. T. E. Zapadaeva, V. A. Petrov V. V. Sokolov Emissivity of Stoichiometric Zirconium and Titanium Carbides at High Temperatures High Temp., 19 313 320 (1981).
24. L. N. Grossman High Temperature Thermophysical Properties of Zirconium Carbide J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 48 236 242 (1965).
25. W. A. Mackie P. R. Davis Single-Crystal Zirconium Carbide as a High-Temperature Thermionic Cathode Material IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 36 220 224 (1989).
26. V. A. Petrov, V. Y. Chekhovskoi, A. E. Sheindlin, V. A. Nikolaeva L. P. Fomina Total Hemispherical Emissive Power, Monochromatic (l=0.65 m) Emissive Power, and Specific Electrical Resistivity of Zirconium and Niobium Carbides in the Temperature Range 1200-3500 K High Temp., 5 889 893 (1967).
27. A. N. Kolesnichenko, Y. A. Krasnoshchekov, L. B. Nezhevenko A. V. Pustogarov High-Temperature Emissivity of Zirconium Carbide High Temp., 9 178 180 (1971).