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Determination of the stress orientation distribution function using pulsed neutron sources
Author(s) -
Wang Y. D.,
Wang X.L.,
Stoica A. D.,
Richardson J. W.,
Lin Peng R.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s0021889802017399
Subject(s) - intergranular corrosion , materials science , neutron source , neutron , diffractometer , stress (linguistics) , orientation (vector space) , annealing (glass) , nuclear physics , physics , composite material , alloy , geometry , mathematics , scanning electron microscope , linguistics , philosophy
The stress orientation distribution function (SODF) was recently introduced as a mean‐field representation to describe the grain‐orientation dependence of intergranular stress. Pulsed neutron sources are ideally suited for the determination of the SODF since multiple reflections can be measured simultaneously with comparable precision. A method is developed for constructing the SODF from strain pole figures measured with a pulsed neutron source and demonstrated with cold‐rolled interstitial‐free steel. The experimental results are compared with those measured with a reactor‐based constant‐wavelength diffractometer. It is shown that access to a large number of reflections on a pulsed neutron source improves the precision of the experimental SODF and facilitates in situ studies of the evolution of the intergranular stress during deformation and annealing.