How the crystallography and nanoscale chemistry of the metal/oxide interface develops during the aqueous oxidation of zirconium cladding alloys

Acta Materialia

Volumn 60, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7132-7149

  Ni, N ^a   Hudson, D ^a   Wei, J ^b   Wang, P ^b   Lozano Perez, S ^a   Smith, G D W ^a   Sykes, J M ^a   Yardley, S S ^a   Moore, K L ^a   Lyon, S ^b   Cottis, R ^b   Preuss, M ^b   Grovenor, C R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atom probe tomography (APT); Corrosion mechanisms; Metal scale interface; Transmission electron microscopy (TEM); Zirconium alloys

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS CORROSION; AQUEOUS OXIDATION; ASSEMBLY COMPONENT; ATOM-PROBE TOMOGRAPHY; CLADDING ALLOYS; CORROSION MECHANISMS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; FUEL CLADDING; KINETIC TRANSITION; METAL OXIDE INTERFACE; NANO SCALE; OXIDATION KINETICS; OXIDATION PROCESS; OXIDE LAYER; PROTECTIVE LAYERS; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM;

CERIUM ALLOYS; CORROSION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; KINETICS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TERNARY ALLOYS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCONIUM;

ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84868208029     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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