Thermal shock tests to qualify different tungsten grades as plasma facing material

Marius Wirtz; Jochen Linke; Thorsten Loewenhoff; Gerald Pintsuk; Inge Uytdenhouwen

doi:10.1088/0031-8949/T167/1/014015

Thermal shock tests to qualify different tungsten grades as plasma facing material

Marius Wirtz, Jochen Linke, Thorsten Loewenhoff, Gerald Pintsuk, Inge Uytdenhouwen

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Abstract

The electron beam device JUDITH 1 was used to establish a testing procedure for the qualification of tungsten as plasma facing material. Absorbed power densities of 0.19 and 0.38GWm−2 for an edge localized mode-like pulse duration of 1 ms were chosen. Furthermore, base temperatures of room temperature, 400 °C and 1000 °C allow investigating the thermal shock performance in the brittle, ductile and high temperature regime. Finally, applying 100 pulses under all mentioned conditions helps qualifying the general damage behaviour while with 1000 pulses for the higher power density the influence of thermal fatigue is addressed. The investigated reference material is a tungsten product produced according to the ITER material specifications. The obtained results provide a general overview of the damage behaviour with quantified damage characteristics and thresholds. In particular, it is shown that the damage strongly depends on the microstructure and related thermo-mechanical properties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PHYSICA SCRIPTA
Subtitle of host publication	15th International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC)
Pages	1
Number of pages	6
Volume	T167
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/T167/1/014015
State	Published - 12 Jan 2016

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Name	Physica Scripta
Publisher	IOP - IOP Publishing
ISSN (Print)	0031-8949

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Wirtz, M., Linke, J., Loewenhoff, T., Pintsuk, G., & Uytdenhouwen, I. (2016). Thermal shock tests to qualify different tungsten grades as plasma facing material. In PHYSICA SCRIPTA: 15th International Conference on Plasma-Facing Materials and Components for Fusion Applications (PFMC) (Vol. T167, pp. 1). (Physica Scripta). https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/T167/1/014015

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