Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Radiation Application, Faculty of Nuclear Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, P.O.BOX: 1983969411 Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Energy Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, P.O.BOX: 1458889694 Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Using molecular dynamics simulations, short-term analysis on a time scale of several tens of picoseconds of displacement cascade in radiation-damaged materials was studied. Accordingly, this simulation obtained the equilibrium number of interstitial/vacancy defects and their positions in iron-alpha. Then, the object kinetic Monte Carlo (OKMC) simulations were performed using the obtained results to investigate the effect of annealing on the irradiated alpha-iron. The simulation results showed that in the isochronal annealing of the irradiated alpha-iron, only vacancy cluster defects were more significant than four vacancies, and <111> defects remained stable at temperatures above room temperature.
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