Measurement of Residual and Applied Stress Using Neutron Diffraction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)

The accurate, absolute, and non-destructive measurement of residual stress fields within metallic, ceramic, and composite engineering components has been one of the major problems facing engineers for many years, and so the extension of X-ray methods to the use of neutrons represents a major advance. The technique utilizes the unique penetrating power of the neutron into most engineering materials, combined with the sensitivity of diffraction, to measure the separation of lattice planes within grains of polycrystalline engineering materials, thus providing an internal strain gauge. The strain is then converted to stress using calibrated elastic constants. It was just over ten years ago that the initial neutron diffraction measurements of residual stress were carried out, and during the ensuing decade measurements have commenced at most steady state reactors and pulsed sources around the world. So swift has been the development of the field that, in addition to fundamental scientific studies, commercial measurements have been made on industrial components for several years now. The use of neutrons is ideally suited to the determination of triaxial macrostress tensors, macrostress gradients, and microstresses in composites and multiphase alloys as well as deformed, plastically anisotropic metals and alloys. To date, it has been used to investigate welded and heat-treated industrial components, to characterize composites, to study the response of material under applied loads, to calibrate more portable methods such as ultrasonics, and to verify computer modelling calculations of residual and applied stress.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	NATO Science Series E:, 216
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	1992
Editors:	M. T. Hutchings • Aaron D. Krawitz
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	588
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
ISBN-13:	978-9401052429
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > Testing of materials > General
LSN:	9401052425
Barcode:	9789401052429

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