Publications related to Austenitic stainless steel

Plasmoid drift and first wall heat deposition during ITER H-mode dual-SPIs in JOREK simulations

The heat flux mitigation during the thermal quench (TQ) by the shattered pellet injection (SPI) is one of the major elements of disruption mitigation strategy for ITER. It's efficiency greatly depends on the SPI and the target plasma parameters, and is ult ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Di Cui

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

Towards Robust Monitoring of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process based on Acoustic Emission combined with Machine Learning Solutions

Rita Drissi Daoudi

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is an Additive Manufacturing (AM) process consolidating parts layer by layer, from a metallic powder bed. It allows no limitation in terms of geometry and is therefore of particular interest to various industries. Metallic LP ...

EPFL2023

Microscopic Digital Image Correlation Analysis of Strain Distributions in Stainless Steel 316L Induced by Multiaxial Cyclic Loading

Elif Cansu Kursun

Fatigue damage in materials results in localized strain at the microstructural level. In many engineering components of the cooling circuits of nuclear power plants, where austenitic steels are used, the material experiences multiaxial cyclic loading, eith ...

EPFL2023

Tailored deformation behavior of 304L stainless steel through control of the crystallographic texture with laser-powder bed fusion

Roland Logé, Christian Leinenbach, Markus Strobl, Efthymios Polatidis

Laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) has gained significant research interest, not only for its profound advantage of producing near-net shape complex geometries of metallic parts, but also for the possibility of producing tailored microstructures. Here we expl ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Role of mean stress on fatigue behavior of a 316L austenitic stainless steel in LWR and air environments

Philippe Spätig, Hans-Peter Seifert

Mean stress effects on fatigue life of a stainless steel in air and boiling water reactor (BWR) environments were evaluated by load-controlled tests. In stress-life, non-zero mean stresses increase life in low cycle fatigue regime in both environments and ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

APT/TEM characterization of the element segregation in ferritic/martensitic steels after irradiation in SINQ

Lijuan Cui

Ferritic /martensitic (FM) steels are among the most important materials in various nuclear applications. As radiation-induced segregation (RIS) is one of the major factors for embrittlement of nuclear materials, thereofre it is essential to study the RIS ...

EPFL2021

A comparative surface analysis of explanted hip joint prostheses made of different biomedical alloys

Stefano Mischler, Angela Bermudez Castañeda, Adriana Esguerra Arce, Johanna Esguerra Arce

The introduction of modular design in total hip arthroplasty has enabled the use of different materials in one single configuration and the adjustment of the prosthesis to the patient's body, and facilitated medical revisions. However, modularity leads to ...

IMPRENTA UNIV ANTIOQUIA2021

Enhancement of riveted steel bridges by adding a trough in UHPFRC acting in composite action

Eugen Brühwiler

Riveted railway bridges are commonly considered as being “old”, having fatigue damage and are therefore replaced. While this practice should be by now obsolete by using novel engineering methods like structural monitoring, prolongation of the service durat ...

Taylor & Francis2021

Understanding Thermomechanical Treatments Induced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process

Hossein Ghasemi Tabasi

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is referred to technologies that produce directly 3D parts in a layer-by-layer fashion. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) is one of the most important AM processes, enabling production of very complex metallic objects from a compu ...

EPFL2021

Experimental Characterization of Additively Manufactured Metallic Heat Exchangers

Mahbod Heidari

In this study, three manifold-microchannel heat exchangers were additively manufactured by direct metal laser sintering. The heat exchangers were manufactured from stainless steel (SS17-4) with an overall dimension of 64.2 x 46.0 x 27.1 mm. The thermal and ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

First principles study of the effect of hydrogen in austenitic stainless steels and high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Xiao Zhou

Hydrogen (H) embrittlement in multicomponent austenitic alloys is a serious limitation to their application in many environments. Recent experiments show that the High-Entropy Alloy (HEA) CoCrFeMnNi absorbs more H than 304 Stainless Steel but is less prone ...

2020

Probabilistic and deterministic full field approaches to simulate recrystallization in ODS steels

Roland Logé, Flore Villaret

Mechanical and functional properties of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) ferritic/martensitic steels are strongly related to their microstructures. Thus, numerical modeling of microstructure evolution during ODS forming is of prime importance. In this w ...

ELSEVIER2020

Solute-dislocation interactions and creep-enhanced Cu precipitation in a novel ferritic-martensitic steel

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Bo Xiao

G115 steel has gained a growing interesting recently for its use in next-generation ultra-supercritical power plant applications. Due to the high densities of dislocations and lath martensite boundaries in G115 steel, interactions between solutes and dislo ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

'Green' Cr(III)-based electrodeposition of stainless steel-like FeCrNi: synthesis, mechanisms, material properties of films and micro-nanocomponents for bio-medical applications

Enrico Bertero

The electrodeposition (ED) of stainless steel (SS) -like FeCrNi alloys for miniaturised devices is appealing for bio-medicine as it would allow combining excellent material properties (e.g. corrosion resistance, hardness, bio-compatibility) at low-cost. Ho ...

EPFL2020

Design guidelines for Al-12%Si latent heat storage encapsulations to optimize performance and mitigate degradation

Sophia Haussener, Selmar Rudolf Binder

We provide detailed insight into the growth kinetics of intermetallic layers formed at the interface of molten Al-12%Si with cylindrical encapsulations of 316L stainless steel. This knowledge is relevant for the design and operation of high-temperature lat ...

ELSEVIER2020

Experimental evaluation and modeling of fatigue of a 316L austenitic stainless steel in high-temperature water and air environments

Wen Chen

Austenitic stainless steels is used in many components of nuclear power plants, particularly in the pipes of cooling systems. Owing to power transients and to start-ups and shutdowns, these components are subjected to thermo-mechanical loadings (low-cycle ...

EPFL2020

Dynamic study of contact damping in martensitic stainless steels using nano-indentation

Philippe Spätig, Hans-Peter Seifert

The study was undertaken to gain insight into the micro-mechanisms controlling plasticity at the micrometer scale of elastic-plastic metallic alloys. Dynamic nano-indentation tests, where a small harmonic force amplitude is superimposed during loading, ref ...

ELSEVIER2020

Advanced analytical electron microscopy applied to Solid Oxide Cell materials and their degradation

Stéphane François Jean Poitel

Electron microscopy offers a wide range of techniques to study materials. Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM), in particular, allows the characterisation of samples at high-temperature using a laser heating stage, and under various gaseous at ...

EPFL2020

An Overview of Serum Albumin Interactions with Biomedical Alloys

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Oksana Klok

Understanding the interactions between biomedical alloys and body fluids is of importance for the successful and safe performance of implanted devices. Albumin, as the first protein that comes in contact with an implant surface, can determine the biocompat ...

2020