Abstract
Abstract Tensile specimens of the normalized and tempered fully martensitic steel DIN 1.4914 were helium implanted up to 340 appm within the temperature range 300–720°C using a 104 MeV alpha particle beam. The high He/damage ratio of 1850 appm He/dpa allowed to determine the effect of helium on material properties. After irradiation tensile strength and ductility were investigated mainly at test temperatures equal to the irradiation temperatures. While short time irradiations with helium contents up to 100 appm have shown no visible effect on the tensile behaviour at all temperatures investigated, long time irradiations reduced the material strength at irradiation temperatures above about 440°C. This irradiation induced softening obscured the predicted minor hardening effect of the observed He-bubbles completely and increases with irradiation time and temperature. The fracture mode of helium-implanted and control specimens is found to remain always ductile and transgranular.
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