High Heat Flux Tests of Small-scale Be/Cu Mock-ups for ITER
摘要
Several kinds of Be/Cu joints have been made by hot isostatic press (HIP) in China in order to develop the ITER-FW blanket fabrication technology. At the first stage, high temperature HIP technology was investigated, and both Ti film and PVD (physical vapor deposition)-coating were adopted as intermediate layers between high purity beryllium made by HIP and CuCrZr alloy. The average bonding strength of Be/CuCrZr joints is larger than 60 Mpa and a good metallurgical bonding was formed. The Be/CuCrZr joints at optimized technology can sustain 1000 cycles under an absorbed power density of about 2.5 MW.m, which shows relatively good thermal fatigue properties. Temperature and stress distributions were also calculated by 2D ANSYS, showing a good accord with experimental results. Low temperature HIP joining is being developed and the heat load evaluation is also under way.