title: Effect of Ar ion irradiation on electrochemical behaviors of zircaloy-4
abstract: In order to investigate the effect of the damage on the electrochemical behavior, zircaloy-4 specimens were irradiated by Ar ions using an accelerator at an energy of 50 keV, with doses from 3 x 10(14) to 3 x 10(16) ions/cm2 at liquid nitrogen temperature. Potentiodynamic polarization measurements were employed to evaluate the corrosion resistance of zircaloy-4 in a 0.5 M H2SO4 water solution at room temperature. A damage efficiency function on the passive current density of the polarization curve was defined and deduced theoretically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: An
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fan