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An Electro-Optical X-Ray Diffraction System for Grain Boundary Migration Measurements at Temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Robert E. Green Jr.
Robert E. Green Jr.*
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The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Abstract

Considerable work has been undertaken in order to gain an understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the generation of recrystallization textures developed upon annealing of cold-worked metals. Most direct measurements have consisted of measuring the increase in average diameter of the largest grain growing into a polycrystalline aggregate. Experimental measurements of individual boundaries migrating into deformed single crystals, though of a more fundamental nature, have been made by far fewer investigators. This is probably due to the increased experimental difficulties associated with careful control of such experiments. Most previous investigators have made grain boundary migration measurements by the heat-cool-etch method, despite the fact that it has several marked disadvantages. Other investigators have constructed an X-ray goniometer furnace and used it to measure grain boundary migration rates while the test specimen was maintained at temperature. Since there have been no published reports of the use of such a system in the past thirteen years, it must be concluded that the technique was unsuccessful in general.

The system described in the present work is relatively simple in design and extremely simple to use. Not only does it permit absolute measurement of grain boundary position at temperature but it also permits boundary migration measurements to be made of extremely fast moving boundaries. The basic components of the system are as follows. A continuous spectrum X-ray beam is converted by a slit collimating system into a beam which is incident along the entire length of the test specimen. This beam is interrupted by a wire grid just prior to impingement on the test specimen. The test specimen is supported vertically in a furnace maintained at the temperature required for grain boundary migration. The various diffracted X-ray beams pass out of the furnace through a highly reflecting insulating baffle made from very thin aluminum foil and impinge on a fluorescent screen. This screen converts the X-ray image into a visible one which is amplified and recorded using the electro-optical system.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 15: Twentieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 11-13, 1971 , 1971 , pp. 435 - 445
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1971

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