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岩本 ちひろ*; 高村 正人*; 上野 孝太*; 片岡 美波*; 栗原 諒*; 徐 平光; 大竹 淑恵*
ISIJ International, 62(5), p.1013 - 1022, 2022/05
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：30.25(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)Neutron diffraction is a powerful non-destructive method for evaluating the microscopic structure and internal stress of metal plates as a bulk average. Precise neutron diffraction measurements with a high intensity neutron beam have already been carried out at large-scale neutron facilities. However, it is not easy to provide users with enough experimental opportunities. We are working on upgrading the neutron diffractometer with techniques of time-of-flight to enable stress measurements at RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source (RANS). To improve neutron diffraction resolution, delayed neutrons, which expand neutron beam pulse width, should be suppressed. However, it is difficult to separate the delayed neutrons experimentally. In this study, a new analysis method has been proposed to deconvolute the diffraction peak from the delayed neutron component. Moreover, a new collimator system, called decoupled collimator system, has been developed to reduce the number of delayed neutrons. The diffraction patterns from a powder sample of pure body-centered cubic iron were measured with the decoupled collimator and the diffraction peak of {211} reflection was analyzed by the new analysis method using a model function of a single exponential decay function convoluted with a Gaussian function. By this method, the decoupled collimator system has been confirmed to achieve a smaller measurement limit of lattice strain 
than a small-aperture polyethylene collimator system and a non-collimator system. The currently available was 6.7
10
, this means that the internal stress up to 130 MPa can be well evaluated for steel materials with a Young's modulus of 200 GPa at RANS.
高村 正人*; 岩本 ちひろ*; 徐 平光; 上野 孝太*; 栗原 諒*; 鈴木 裕士; 大竹 淑恵*
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Plastic forming processes of metallic sheets, 
, forging, rolling, bending, pressing, drawing, and extruding, are important manufacturing methods to produce complex mechanical parts. Numerical simulation using the finite element method based on the crystal plasticity theory has been thought valuable to improve the forming accuracy and reduce the forming defects, especially for high strength automotive metallic sheets. For the realization of reliable numerical modelling and the development of strength-formability well-balanced novel metallic sheets, the bulk average microstructure information closely related to the mechanical characteristics is highly expected to be on-site available, or at least may be measured in time through neutron diffraction. Towards these on-site neutron diffraction measurement requirements from forming process designers and materials researchers, RIKEN has developed an accelerator-driven compact neutron source (RANS) and realized the texture and phase fraction measurement at a good precision level. Recently, a novel residual measurement technique using RANS is being carried out.
岩本 ちひろ*; 高村 正人*; 上野 孝太*; 栗原 諒*; 徐 平光; 鈴木 裕士; 大竹 淑恵*
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理化学研究所小型中性子源RANSでは、これまでに飛行時間法による中性子回折測定の開発を行っており、集合組織や体積率の測定を成功させてきた。さらに、残留応力測定への高度化として回折線分解能を向上するために、大型施設で利用されている非結合型中性子減速材の導入によって、結合型中性子減速材の場合と比較してBCC鉄粉の211結晶面からの回折線分解能が若干改善された。本研究では、回折線強度を増やし、かつバックグラウンドを低減するためのビームライン開発を行った。まず、空間的・時間的に広がった中性子ビームがサンプルへ照射されることを防ぐため、また広がった中性子ビームが実験室内床面などから散乱されることで発生するバックグランドを抑えるため、減速材から中性子取り出し口までの開口部内壁に、熱中性子遮蔽材であるB
Cゴムシートを貼りつけた。さらに、サンプルへのビーム強度を増加させるため、これまで中性子取り出し口からサンプルまでの間に設置していた長さ3m、開口5050mm
のポリエチレンコリメータを外し、長さ3m、開口250250mmのボロン含有ポリエチレン(BPE)導管を設置した。この導管の下流側開口部には、上流からのビーム由来のバックグラウンドを低減するために、BPE導管の最下流に開口50mm角、厚さ15mmのBCゴムシートで作成したコリメータを設置した。この改善後のセットアップを用いてBCC鉄粉回折線を測定し、改善前のセットアップ時における回折線分布と比較した。200結晶面以外の回折線ピークにおいて、セットアップ改善後の回折線強度が増加し、また回折線ピークの形状も鋭い形状をしている結果が得られている。この改善により、RANSにおける残留応力測定のS/N向上及び測定時間短縮化が可能となることが示された。
徐 平光; 岩本 ちひろ*; 高村 正人*; 大竹 淑恵*; 栗原 諒*; 上野 孝太*; 片岡 美波*; 山本 和喜; Harjo, S.; 菖蒲 敬久
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Neutron diffraction can collect sample-volume averaged diffraction patterns due to the excellent penetrability and the coarse beam spot, valuable for investigating bulk microstructure changes of polycrystalline materials. In recent years, several neutron instruments in Japan have been employed for precise bulk texture evaluation. The engineering materials diffractometer attached with large sample stage and precise radial collimators at J-PARC has realized a reliably combined Rietveld texture evaluation, simultaneously providing crystallographic textures and other profile-analysis-related material parameters such as crystal structures, stress tensors. The RANS compact neutron source has enabled reliable bulk texture evaluation of steel materials through reasonably using a high stereographic angle resolution and a large sample-gauge volume. As a feed-back from the texture measurement technique based on RANS compact neutron source, recently, weak diffraction patterns step-by-step collected in very short time from RESA neutron diffractometer at JRR-3 have been utilized to realize the precise texture evaluation of various polycrystalline materials, , a standard rock material, and different steel materials.
岩本 ちひろ*; 高村 正人*; 上野 孝太*; 片岡 美波*; 栗原 諒*; 徐 平光; 大竹 淑恵*
no journal, ,
Neutron diffraction is a powerful non-destructive method for evaluating the microscopic structure and internal stress of metallic materials and related semi-finished parts as a bulk average. To implement on-site stress measurements via the neutron diffraction at laboratories and factories frequently and even daily, we are establishing and upgrading the novel measurement and analysis methodology of time-of-flight neutron diffraction at RIKEN accelerator-driven compact neutron source (RANS). In this study, we have proposed two methods to improve the determination resolution of the diffraction peak position by focusing on delayed neutrons due to background scattering from devices such as reflector surrounding the neutron moderator and the polyethylene collimator. First, an analysis method has been proposed to deconvolute original diffraction peak from the delayed neutron component by defining a new model function to well describe the profile shape of delayed neutron diffraction. Second, a new decoupled collimator system has been developed to reduce the number of delayed neutrons. The diffraction patterns from a powder sample of pure body-centered cubic iron were measured with the decoupled collimator and the diffraction peak of {211} reflection was analyzed by the new analysis method using the neutron diffraction profile model function, 
, a single exponential decay function convoluted with a Gaussian function. By this method, the decoupled collimator system has been confirmed to achieve a smaller measurement limit of lattice strain 
than a small-aperture polyethylene collimator system and a non-collimator system. The currently available was 6.710, which means that the internal stress up to 130 MPa can be well evaluated at RANS for steel materials with a Young's modulus of 200 GPa.
