Journal
MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/aaa860
Keywords
W-Cu FGMs; fusion materials; spark plasma sintering; high temperature thermo-physical properties
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Funding
- Euratom research and training programme [633053]
- WP-MAT
- WP-EDU
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The divertor of a fusion reactor like DEMO requires materials able to withstand high heat fluxes and neutron irradiation for several years. For the water cooling concept of this essential part of the reactor, the most likely plasma facing material will be W, while the heatsink material considered is CuCrZr or an improved version of such a Cu-based alloy. To realize W-Cu alloy joints able to withstand thousands of thermal cycles can be difficult due to the difference between the thermal expansion coefficients of these materials. In this work we investigate the possibility to realize such joints by using W-Cu functional gradient materials (FGMs) produced from nanometric and micrometric metallic powders mixtures and consolidated by spark plasma sintering at about 900 degrees C. Morphological and thermal properties investigations, performed for typical compositions, shows that the best results are obtained using powders with micrometric dimensions. A resulting 1 mm thick, 3 layers W-Cu FGM produced by this simple method shows a remarkable almost constant thermal conductivity value of 200 W m(-1) K-1, from room temperature up to 1000 degrees C.
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