Atomistic Study of Radiation-Induced Ductile-to-Brittle Transition in Austenitic Steel

A. Ustrzycka, H. Mousavi, F. J. Dominguez-Gutierrez +1

Neutron irradiation in structural alloys promotes defect clustering, which suppresses plasticity and triggers a ductile-to-brittle transition (DBT), a key degradation mechanism lim…