Impact of Hydrogen Content on the Thermal Stability of Hydride Phases in Zirconium Alloys

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The fast and spontaneous hydrogen diffusion in HCP structures leads to the hydride precipitation. It is often pointed as causing embrittlement and rupture in zirconium alloys for applications in the nuclear industry. In our previous works TEM, DSC, SEM-EBSD and XRD were used to study the hydride stability after many precipitation-dissolution thermal cycles as well as the crystallographic hydride phase nature and the hydride-substrate crystallographic orientation relationships as a function of the hydrogen content. Results showed that the evolution of the dissolution and precipitation energies is correlated to the concentration of hydrogen atoms available to reprecipitate, which is submitted to a diffusion controlled by the misfit dislocation migration. In the present work in-situ TEM thermal cycling was performed in order to locally investigate the crystallographic stability of zirconium hydrides of different structures after many dissolution-reprecipitation cycles.

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