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Channeling-in channeling-out revisited: selected area electron channeling and electron backscatter diffraction
T. Ben Britton, M. Haroon Qaiser, Ruth M. Birch
Scanning electron microscopy combined with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling provides rich crystallographic contrast, but the mutual influence of chan…
Improving parent-austenite twinned grain reconstruction using electron backscatter diffraction in low carbon austenite
Ruth M Birch, T. Ben Britton, Warren J Poole
Thermomechanical controlled processing (TMCP) is widely used to optimize the final properties of high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels, via microstructure engineering. The room tem…
Improved understanding of the growth of blocky alpha in welded Zircaloy-4
Ruth M. Birch, T. Ben Britton
Zirconium alloys are widely used in nuclear reactors as fuel cladding materials. Fuel cladding is used to contain the nuclear fuel and cladding tubes are typically sealed using wel…
Characterization of local deformation around hydrides in Zircaloy-4 using conventional and high angular resolution electron backscatter diffraction
Ruth M. Birch, James O. Douglas, T. Ben Britton
Zircaloy-4 is used as a fuel cladding material for water reactors, as it has good mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and a low thermal neutron absorption cross section. H…
Optimizing broad ion beam polishing of zircaloy-4 for electron backscatter diffraction analysis
Ning Fang, Ruth Birch, T. Ben Britton
Microstructural analysis with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) involves sectioning and polishing to create a flat and preparation-artifact free surface. The quality of EBSD…
Nanoscale characterisation of hydrides and secondary phase particles in Zircaloy-4
Wenjun Lu, Paraskevas Kontis, Siyang Wang +4
The interaction of hydrogen and metals continues to be industrially relevant and is a critical part of creating and supporting a safety case for nuclear reactor operation. In the p…
Effective structural unit analysis in hexagonal close packed alloys -- reconstruction of parent beta microstructures & crystal orientation post processing analysis
Ruth Birch, Thomas Benjamin Britton
Materials with an allotropic phase transformation can result in the formation of microstructures where grains have orientation relationships (ORs) determined by the transformation…
The effect of cooling rate and grain size on hydride formation in Zircaloy-4
Ruth Birch, Siyang Wang, Vivian Tong +1
We explore the distribution, morphology and structure of zirconium hydrides formed using different cooling rates through the solid state Zr+[H] --> Zr + hydride transus, in fine an…