Use Cases CuCrZr OFHC Cu

Use Cases: CuCrZr & OFHC-Cu

CuCrZr (Chromium Zirconium Copper) and OFHC-Cu (Oxygen-Free High Conductivity Copper) are key structural and heat sink materials in nuclear fusion reactors, particularly for plasma-facing components.

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Relevance to UPXO

These materials exhibit complex grain morphologies under manufacturing (forging, rolling, extrusion) and in-service irradiation conditions. UPXO can generate representative synthetic microstructures for:

• Baseline (unirradiated) grain structure characterisation
• Post-irradiation microstructure evolution studies
• FE simulation domains for thermal and mechanical analysis

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Typical Grain Structure Parameters

To be populated with material-specific Monte Carlo and Voronoi parameters.

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Workflows

To be populated with UPXO pipeline examples specific to CuCrZr and OFHC-Cu.

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References

To be populated as publications become available.