Przemyslaw Klups

Profile Information
Name
Mr. Przemyslaw Klups
Institution
University of Oxford
Position
Post-graduate Research Student
h-Index
1
ORCID
0000-0002-6871-3221
Biography

I am interested in how grain boundary structures affect segregation and clustering in RPV steels. In a broader context, I am trying to separate thermal and radiation components from the changes occurring in RPV steels by conducting long-term thermal ageing experiments on the same alloys that have been neutron-irradiated.

Expertise
APT, Atom Probe Tomography (ATP), Manganese Nickel Silicon Precipitates (MNSP), Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV)
Publications:
"Using spherical indentation to measure the strength of copper-chromium-zirconium" Przemyslaw Klups, Alexandra Cackett, Joven Lim, Andy J. Bushby, Chris Hardie, Journal of Nuclear Materials Vol. 511 2018 610-3115 Link
Precipitation hardened CuCrZr will be used in heat-sink components in the ITER tokomak and is a primary candidate for EU DEMO. The measurement of mechanical properties of irradiated CuCrZr using conventional, standardised techniques is difficult due to the challenges involved in working with radioactive material and the relatively large specimen size required. Spherical nano-indentation offers a technique to measure stress-strain properties from far smaller volumes than conventional tests. In this work, CuCrZr has been heat-treated at different temperatures to vary the Cr precipitate size and spacing. Spherical nano-indentation using multiple tip radii was then used to produce stress-strain curves for all samples, from which values of initial flow stress were calculated. It was found that there was a strong indentation size effect (ISE) in the stress required to initiate plasticity, however at higher indentation strains the flow stress became constant for tip radii, R, ≥8 μm. This suggests that at the initiation of plastic deformation the ISE is dominated by dislocation source activation but in later stages the interaction with microstructural material length-scales dominate the measured mechanical strength. The mechanical response of these small-scale tests is governed by multiple mechanisms, which convolute interpretation of data and must be considered when measuring the effects of irradiation on the mechanical properties.
Presentations:
"Multi-technique Analysis of Grain Boundaries in Low-Alloy Steels (poster)" Przemyslaw Klups, Ben Jenkins, James Douglas, Nick Riddle, Jonathan Hyde, Paul Bagot, Michael Moody, European Workshop on Atom Probe Tomography November 12-14, (2019)
"Multi-technique Analysis of Low-Alloy SteelsFrom the Micro-to Nano-scale" Przemyslaw Klups, Nick Riddle, Jonathan Hyde, Paul Bagot, Michael Moody, Ben Jenkins, James Douglas, Rolls-Royce Doctorate Conference 2020 December 9-11, (2020)
"PosgenPy: Finding Optimal Parameters for Cluster Search in APT (video-poster)" Przemyslaw Klups, Dan Haley, Andrew London, Hazel Gardner, James Famelton, Paul Bagot, Michael Moody, APT&M 2020 November 16-18, (2020)
Additional Publications:
"How precisely are solute clusters in RPV steels characterized by atom probe experiments?" P. Klupś, M.J. Konstantinović, G. Bonny, M.I. Pascuet, M. Moody, L. Malerba, N. Castin, [2025] Journal of Nuclear Materials · DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2024.155412
"PosgenPy: An Automated and Reproducible Approach to Assessing the Validity of Cluster Search Parameters in Atom Probe Tomography Datasets" Daniel Haley, Andrew J London, Hazel Gardner, James Famelton, Benjamin M Jenkins, Jonathan M Hyde, Paul AJ Bagot, Michael P Moody, Przemysław Klupś, [2022] Microscopy and Microanalysis · DOI: 10.1017/s1431927621012368
Abstract

One of the main capabilities of atom probe tomography (APT) is the ability to not only identify but also characterize early stages of precipitation at length scales that are not achievable by other techniques. One of the most popular methods to identify nanoscale clustering in APT data, based on the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN), is used extensively in many branches of research. However, it is common that not all of the steps leading to the selection of certain parameters used in the analysis are reported. Without knowing the rationale behind parameter selection, it may be difficult to compare cluster parameters obtained by different researchers. In this work, a simple open-source tool, PosgenPy, is used to justify cluster search parameter selection via providing a systematic sweep through parameter values with multiple randomizations to minimize a false-positive cluster ratio. The tool is applied to several different microstructures: a simulated material system and two experimental datasets from a low-alloy steel . The analyses show how values for the various parameters can be selected to ensure that the calculated cluster number density and cluster composition are accurate.

"A new class of alumina-forming superalloy for 3D printing" Przemysław Klupś, William J.B. Dick-Cleland, Kathryn E. Rankin, Satoshi Utada, Paul A.J. Bagot, D. Graham McCartney, Yuanbo T. Tang, Roger C. Reed, Joseph N. Ghoussoub, [2022] Additive Manufacturing · DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2022.102608
"Using spherical indentation to measure the strength of copper-chromium-zirconium" Joven J.H. Lim, Przemysław Klupś, Andy J. Bushby, Christopher D. Hardie, Alexandra J. Cackett, [2018] Journal of Nuclear Materials · DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.04.012
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