Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2010-04-29
Defect and diffusion forum 297-301 (2010) 519-524
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.2
The growth of a U3O7 oxide layer during the anionic oxidation of UO2 pellets induced very important mechanical stresses due to the crystallographic lattice parameters differences between UO2 and its oxide. These stresses, combined with the chemical processes of oxidation, can lead to the cracking of the system, called chemical fragmentation. We study the crystallographic orientation of the oxide lattice growing at the surface of UO2, pointing the fact that epitaxy relations at interface govern the coexistence of UO2 and U3O7. In this work, several results are given: - Determination of the epitaxy relations between the substrate and its oxide thanks to the Bollmann's method; epitaxy strains are deduced. - Study of the coexistence of different domains in the U3O7 (crystallographic compatibility conditions at the interface between two phases: Hadamard conditions). - FEM simulations of a multi-domain U3O7 connected to a UO2 substrate explain the existence of a critical thickness of U3O7 layer.
Creton Nicolas
Dejardin Steeve
Desgranges Lionel
Garruchet Sébastien
Montesin Tony
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