Nondestructive Strain Tensor Scanning within Samples of Cylindrical Symmetry
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, IL 60439 (United States)
- General Electric Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY 12301 (United States)
The radial (i.e., depth below the surface) dependence of the residual strain tensor within shot-peened samples of cylindrical geometry is measured nondestructively using high-energy synchrotron radiation (80 keV). Transmission geometry is employed in combination with a triangulation slit and area detector. Thus, a radial gauge length is defined directly by the beam size rather than cumulatively as in conventional reflection geometry. A narrow incident beam of 30 micrometer diameter is used, and we demonstrate that macroscopic grain averaging is achieved even in the bulk, where the grain size is large, by oscillating the samples in two dimensions. Therefore, the samples are rotated with high frequency around the cylinder axis and translated with low frequency parallel to the axis. We argue that the combination of a narrow incident beam, a two-dimensional sample oscillation, and area detector provides a versatile technique to overcome insufficient grain averaging as the gauge volumes can be flexibly chosen by the combined translation and/or rotation oscillations. The methodology is discussed and experimental results are presented for a shot-peened steel sample. The achieved radial resolution is 30 micrometers, and the radial dependences of five strain tensor components are measured.
- OSTI ID:
- 20652808
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 705, Issue 1; Conference: 8. international conference on synchrotron radiation instrumentation, San Francisco, CA (United States), 25-29 Aug 2003; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1757984; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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