Development of Powder Diffraction Analysis Tools for aNanocrystalline Specimen: An Emphasis upon NiTi (Nitinol)

Owens, Erich

doi:10.2172/891239

Title: Development of Powder Diffraction Analysis Tools for aNanocrystalline Specimen: An Emphasis upon NiTi (Nitinol)

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Powder diffraction is a specialized technique whose investigatory limits are constrained by the scale of the crystallized substance being scanned versus the probe beam used. When disparate in scale, with the photon spot size larger than the crystal being probed, many are employed, the resulting diffraction image being cast from all possible incident angles, constructing {chi}-arcs containing information about the crystalline structure of the material under examination. Of particular interest to our collaboration is the structure of Nitinol, a superelastic Nickel-Titanium alloy, whose phase transformations and load bearing deformations can be studied by usage of diffraction, with wide sweeping biomedical uses. Analysis of this data is complicated by phase transformation and material fluorescence, which make difficult the computational modeling of the peaks within concentric {chi}-arcs. We endeavored to construct a series of computational tools (the amalgamation of them known as 2DPeakFinder) for refining and extracting this relevant data, toward the end of employing previously developed algorithms in the material's structural analysis. We succeeded to a large degree with the use of an iterative algorithm to navigate radial complexity of the signal and manage to retain a distinction between useful signal and superfluous background noise. The tools developed in this projectmore »« less

Authors:: Owens, Erich

Publication Date:: Wed Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2006

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 891239

Report Number(s):: SLAC-TN-06-023
TRN: US200621%%697

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ALGORITHMS; BACKGROUND NOISE; BEARINGS; DIFFRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; NICKEL ALLOYS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTONS; PROBES; REFINING; SIMULATION; TITANIUM ALLOYS; Other,OTHER

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                    Owens, Erich, and /Albion Coll. /SLAC. Development of Powder Diffraction Analysis Tools for aNanocrystalline Specimen: An Emphasis upon NiTi (Nitinol).  United States: N. p., 2006. 
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                    Owens, Erich, & /Albion Coll. /SLAC. Development of Powder Diffraction Analysis Tools for aNanocrystalline Specimen: An Emphasis upon NiTi (Nitinol).  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/891239

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                    Owens, Erich, and /Albion Coll. /SLAC. 2006.  
        "Development of Powder Diffraction Analysis Tools for aNanocrystalline Specimen: An Emphasis upon NiTi (Nitinol)".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.2172/891239.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/891239.

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