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Structural Evolution of Metals at High Temperature: Complementary Investigations with Neutron and Synchrotron Quantum Beams

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Magnesium Technology 2017

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In situ neutron and synchrotron X-ray diffraction deliver unique and complementary insight into the microstructural evolution of metals at high temperature . Neutrons illuminate a larger bulk volume and reveal quantitative phase abundance, bulk texture, lattice parameter changes and other ensemble averaged quantities. In contrast, fine-bundled high-energy X-rays deliver reflections from a number of individual grains. For each constituting phase, their statistics and behavior in time reveal information about grain growth or refinement, subgrain formation, static and dynamic recovery and recrystallization, slip systems, twinning, etc. The complementarity between neutron and synchrotron radiation is demonstrated to study atomic order under ambient and extreme conditions. Examples are given on various metallic systems including magnesium, zirconium alloys and titanium aluminides .

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank ANSTO for support, including a senior research fellowship, as well as the numerous collaborators, listed under the ANSTO ThermoMec.Pro web pages. The synchrotron radiation facilities ESRF, SPring-8 and APS, as well as their staff are acknowledged for experimental work. APS beam time was granted and travel supported through the Australian Synchrotron Research Program, funded by the Commonwealth of Australia under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, backed by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. Travel to ESRF was funded by the International Synchrotron Access Program (ISAP) managed by the Australian Synchrotron. High-pressure studies were performed at SPring-8 under proposal 2013B1157.

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  1. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Australia

    Klaus-Dieter Liss

  2. The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  1. Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona, USA

    Kiran N. Solanki

  2. Lund University , Lund, Skåne Län, Sweden

    Dmytro Orlov

  3. Structural Materials Unit, National Inst for Materials Sci Structural Materials Unit, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Alok Singh

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    Neale R. Neelameggham

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Liss, KD. (2017). Structural Evolution of Metals at High Temperature: Complementary Investigations with Neutron and Synchrotron Quantum Beams. In: Solanki, K., Orlov, D., Singh, A., Neelameggham, N. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_87

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