Steady-State Dynamic Phase Diagram Calculation of U-Ti and U-V Binary System under Irradiation

Abstract

In this paper, by considering the irradiation-enhanced diffusion, a combination of effective free energy model and the thermodynamic model was used for studying the phase relationships in the U-Ti and U-V binary system under irradiation. The steady-state dynamical phase diagrams of U-Ti and U-V binary alloys under different irradiation intensities were calculated and compared with the conventional thermodynamic equilibrium phase diagram. The calculated results show that under irradiation the high-temperature stable (βTi, γU) and (γU,V) phases were stabilized at relatively low temperature resulting in invariant reactions at relatively low temperature. In addition, with the increase of the irradiation intensity, the temperature of the invariant reactions increased, and the phase regions of the (βTi, γU) and (γU,V) also increased.