Industrial research and development and the role of neutron diffraction

✍ Scribed by T.M. Holden; J.H. Root; D.C. Tennant; R.R. Hosbons; R.A. Holt; K.W. Mahin; D. Leggett

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 611 KB
• Volume: 180-181
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(92)90538-4

✦ Synopsis

The property of thermal neutrons that makes them valuable for studying industrial structures is their high penetration through most materials. This means that neutron diffraction can be used as a non-destructive probe for obtaining information about material properties deep inside engineering components.

To a large extent we have developed the techniques in response to pressing problems of industry such as the need to measure residual stress fields, the need to understand the grain-to-grain interaction stresses that drive initial growth transients in nuclear reactor materials, and the need to measure temperature and stresses non-invasively in operating engines.