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-iron at high pressures determined using
neutron diffraction青木 勝敏*; 高野 将大*; 福山 鴻*; 鍵 裕之*; 町田 晃彦*; 齋藤 寛之*; 服部 高典; 佐野 亜沙美; 舟越 賢一*
Physical Review B, 113(18), p.184440_1 - 184440_6, 2026/05
被引用回数:1体心立方(bcc)
-鉄の磁気モーメントの温度依存性をその場中性子粉末回折法を用いて、約2GPaおよび6GPaの圧力下で300
950Kの範囲において調べた。磁気散乱の相対寄与を高めるため、中性子散乱長が天然Feの約半分である
Fe同位体が用いられた。キュリー温度(
)は、2.1GPa, 6.0GPa, 6.7GPaでそれぞれ946(30)K、838(50)K、740(40)Kと決定され、
(K) = 1043 - 49(7)
+ 1.3(1.2)
で表される磁気相境界が決定された。6.7GPaで加熱すると、磁気転移に続いて
構造転移が観測された。この結果は、磁気相境界が
相境界の低温側に位置することを示している。したがって、
転移は、常磁性bcc鉄から常磁性fcc鉄への構造変化に対応する。
neutron diffraction mapping measurement山下 享介*; 柳樂 知也*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Harjo, S.; 潮田 浩作*; 藤井 英俊*
ISIJ International, 66(5), p.673 - 684, 2026/04
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)In this study, neutron diffraction mapping was performed on linear friction welded (LFW) joints of 12 mm thick high-phosphorus weathering steel (SPA-H) to evaluate residual stress, dislocation density, and crystallographic orientation. Welding was conducted under applied pressures of 100 and 250 MPa. The weld interface mainly consisted of refined ferrite with minor retained austenite and martensite, indicating reverse transformation to austenite during welding. The 250 MPa condition resulted in a lower welding temperature. Elongated grains were observed near the surface along the oscillation direction, while equiaxed grains appeared at the center. Both joints showed high tensile residual stresses at the weld center and compressive stresses near the surface. Higher applied pressure increased dislocation density because of suppressed dynamic recovery. Strong texture formation due to plastic flow was observed, while the effect of applied pressure on texture development was limited.
neutron diffraction study山下 享介*; 小山 元道*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Harjo, S.; 潮田 浩作*; 藤井 英俊*
ISIJ International, 66(4), p.477 - 488, 2026/03
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)This study investigated strengthening mechanisms in friction stir welded (FSW) duplex stainless steel (DSS) using in situ neutron diffraction during tensile testing. Two welding conditions, FSW300 and FSW600, produced significant grain refinement, with
grains below 1
m in FSW300. Both conditions increased yield and tensile strength but reduced elongation compared with the base metal (BM), while FSW300 retained higher total elongation than FSW600. Neutron diffraction revealed that
was the harder phase in the BM, whereas
became the harder phase after FSW. Phase stress analysis showed that
was more sensitive to grain refinement strengthening, shifting the dominant strengthening contribution from
to
. Although stacking faults in
increased after FSW, work hardening of
decreased, while
showed enhanced texture development and dislocation accumulation.
伊東 達矢; 小川 祐平*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; 柴田 曉伸*; Harjo, S.
Scripta Materialia, 273, p.117084_1 - 117084_6, 2026/03
被引用回数:3 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)The effect of solute hydrogen on stacking fault evolution in austenitic steels remains debated. In this study, the changes in stacking fault probability in the
111
//loading direction grains family (
) of hydrogen-charged and non-charged Fe-24Cr-19Ni austenitic steels were evaluated using
neutron diffraction during tensile deformation at 223 and 177 K. When
values were plotted against macroscopic strain, hydrogen apparently enhanced stacking fault evolution. However, when identical data were translated into the form of
versus stress, the superficial hydrogen-effect on
notably disappeared. Rather, deformation temperature played more predominant role - lower temperature led to higher
regardless of hydrogen-charging, reflecting the reduction of stacking fault energy with decreasing temperature. These findings demonstrate that hydrogen has a minor effect on stacking fault evolution compared with temperature and applied stress.
Zhu, L.*; Dong, W.*; Naeem, M.*; Kong, H.*; Hu, C.*; Fan, Z.*; Gong, W.; Harjo, S.; Lan, S.*; Wu, Y.*; et al.
Acta Materialia, 303, p.121734_1 - 121734_10, 2026/01
被引用回数:3 パーセンタイル:35.08(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Body-centered cubic (BCC) metals typically exhibit high yield strength but limited work hardening and uniform elongation, especially at low temperatures. High-entropy alloys (HEAs) offer opportunities to overcome these limitations, though their deformation mechanisms remain unclear. Using in situ neutron diffraction and microstructural analysis, this study identifies the origin of the exceptionally large uniform elongation at liquid nitrogen temperature in a single-phase BCC (TiZrHf)
Al
Nb
HEA. Initial plastic deformation is governed by a BCC-to-orthorhombic (
") transformation, followed by
" twinning and deformation-induced amorphization at later stages. The cooperation of these mechanisms suppresses work softening from dislocation plasticity, enabling high yield strength with large uniform elongation and providing a viable strategy for designing cryogenic structural materials.
Cho, K.*; 山下 葵平*; 角谷 心之輔*; 齊藤 拓馬*; 佐々木 泰祐*; 澤泉 克彦*; 奥川 将行*; 小泉 雄一郎*; 眞山 剛*; 菊川 泰地*; et al.
Acta Materialia, 303, p.121696_1 - 121696_18, 2026/01
被引用回数:6 パーセンタイル:83.48(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The deformation behavior and strengthening mechanism of Inconel 718 with a hierarchical structure composed of microscale crystallographic lamellar microstructure (CLM) and nanoscale cellular structure, fabricated by laser powder bed fusion, were clarified via nanoscale microstructural and in-situ neutron diffraction analyses. The CLM is a layered structure parallel to the building direction (BD) and consists of relatively wide main and narrow sub-layers with
110
and
100
orientations, respectively, with respect to BD. This is the first study to demonstrate that the yield stress of the alloys depends strongly on deformation stresses of the sub-layers, even though Schmid factors of the primary slip system for both layers are the same. The sub-layer continues to deform elastically even beyond the micro-yield point of the main layer, which results in the macroscopic strengthening at an early stage of deformation. On the other hand, the cellular structure is formed in both layers, associated with a dendritic cell growth along
100
direction, Nb segregation between the cells and an accumulation of dislocations to decrease a residual stress. The cell boundaries with numerous dislocations and Nb segregation act as a strong barrier to dislocation motion resulting in a stress increase through the Hall-Petch law, even though they are low-angle grain boundaries. The spacing and morphology of the cell boundary depend strongly on fabrication conditions. The optimized cellular structure provides significant strengthening comparable to or greater than that caused by large-angle grain boundaries, thereby increasing the macroscopic strength of the alloys through hardening of the sub-layer.
山下 享介*; 柳樂 知也*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Harjo, S.; 潮田 浩作*; 藤井 英俊*
鉄と鋼, 111(17), p.1057 - 1071, 2025/12
Neutron diffraction mapping was conducted on linear friction welded joints of 12 mm thick high-phosphorus weathering steel (SPA-H) to evaluate residual stress, dislocation density, and crystallographic orientation. Welding was performed at 100 MPa and 250 MPa. The weld interface mainly comprised refined ferrite with retained austenite and martensite, indicating temperatures exceeded A1 and induced reverse transformation. The 250 MPa joint showed a lower welding temperature. Elongated grains formed near the surface along the oscillation direction (OD), while equiaxed grains appeared at the center. High tensile residual stresses were found at the weld center, with compressive stress near the surface perpendicular to the weld. Pressure had little effect on overall stress trends. Dislocation density increased with pressure due to suppressed dynamic recovery. Strong texture developed at the interface, with limited pressure dependence.
Jing, Z.*; 山口 敏男*; 町田 真一*; 服部 高典; Zhou, Y.*
Journal of Chemical Physics, 163(19), p.194505_1 - 194505_12, 2025/11
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Chemistry, Physical)ギガパスカル(GPa)範囲の圧力におけるイオンの溶媒和は、高圧化学合成および地球内部における物質循環にとって極めて重要である。我々は、0.1MPaおよび0.7GPa/298KにおけるMCl (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs)の重水素化水溶液について、中性子散乱(NS)実験および分子動力学(MD)シミュレーションを実施した。経験的ポテンシャル構造精密化(EPSR)手法を用いてNSデータを分析した。0.7GPaへの圧縮に伴い、外殻水分子がイオンの最近接原子殻に入り込み、溶媒和イオンクラスターは高密度化する。第一溶媒和殻における水分子双極子の配向分布に基づく水和因子
と静的水和数
は、圧縮がイオンの水和能力を弱めることを示す。圧縮はイオン拡散、特に構造破壊イオンの拡散を抑制する。イオン拡散係数
、水分子滞留時間
、動的水和数
は、高圧下でRb
とCs
が構造形成イオンの特性を示すことを示す。動的特性は静的構造よりも圧力に敏感である。
Jeong, S. G.*; Kwon, J.*; Kim, E. S.*; Prasad, K.*; Harjo, S.; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Estrin, Y.*; Bouaziz, O.*; Hong, S. I.*; et al.
Materials Science & Engineering A, 942, p.148712_1 - 148712_11, 2025/10
被引用回数:2 パーセンタイル:35.08(Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)The cellular structure plays a key role in determining the mechanical properties of metal additive manufacturing (MAM) components. This study presents in situ neutron diffraction and dislocation density-based modeling for a CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) made via directed energy deposition (DED). A constitutive model based on the Kocks-Mecking-Estrin framework was used to represent the cellular structure. Parametric analysis showed lower dislocation accumulation and annihilation rates in the as-built sample (with cellular structure) than in the heat-treated one. These differences are linked to dislocation forest networks and local stacking fault energy variations. Dislocation density across cell interiors and walls was also compared with deformation-induced dislocation cells.
neutron diffractionLiu, Y.*; Yan, Z.*; Gao, Y.*; Li, Y.*; Gan, B.*; Harjo, S.; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Li, S.*; Wang, Y.-D.*
Microstructures (Internet), 5(4), p.2025096_1 - 2025096_15, 2025/10
The micromechanical behaviors and dislocation evolution in a polycrystalline Ni-Co-based superalloy were systematically investigated by
neutron diffraction tensile testing combined with line profile analysis. The results reveal the sequential activation of
' shearing and Orowan looping mechanisms, with interphase load partitioning governed by strain-dependent interactions of dislocation and precipitate. During the initial plastic deformation, the
and
' phases undergo co-deformation through dislocation shearing without load transfer, while the Orowan looping facilitates the load transfer from
to
' phase at a higher strain level. Furthermore, the low stacking fault energy leads to a rising fraction of screw dislocations by suppressing cross-slip. Crucially, the pinning effect of
' precipitates hinders the rearrangement of these dislocations into low-energy structures, resulting in the formation of high-energy, weakly screened dislocation configurations. These findings provide new evidence for the planar slip dominance in Ni-Co-based superalloys, enabling quantitative assessment of microstructural evolution and micromechanical responses.
齊藤 寛之*; 町田 晃彦*; 服部 高典; 佐野 亜沙美; 舟越 賢一*; 佐藤 豊人*; 折茂 慎一*; 青木 勝敏*
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 714, p.417234_1 - 417234_3, 2025/10
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Physics, Condensed Matter)「高温高圧下における重水素化ニッケルの重水素組成に関する中性子回折研究[Phys. B Condens. Matter. 587 (2020) 412153]」の正誤表を記した。
neutron diffraction study山下 享介*; 古賀 紀光*; Mao, W.*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Harjo, S.; 藤井 英俊*; 梅澤 修*
Materials Science & Engineering A, 941, p.148602_1 - 148602_11, 2025/09
被引用回数:3 パーセンタイル:35.08(Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)Ferrite-austenite duplex stainless steels offer excellent strength and ductility, making them suitable for extreme environments. In this study,
neutron diffraction during tensile testing at 293 K and 200 K was used to investigate stress partitioning and phase-specific deformation. Phase stress was calculated using a texture-compensated method. At both temperatures, ferrite showed higher phase stress than austenite, acting as the harder phase. At 200 K, both phases exhibited increased strength and work hardening. Austenite showed significant stacking fault formation alongside dislocation migration, while ferrite retained its dislocation-based deformation mode, becoming more effective. Stress contributions from both phases were comparable. No martensitic transformation occurred. Strengthening and enhanced work hardening in both phases led to high strength at 200 K, with ductility similar to that at 293 K.
伊東 達矢; 小川 祐平*; Gong, W.; Mao, W.*; 川崎 卓郎; 岡田 和歩*; 柴田 曉伸*; Harjo, S.
波紋, 35(3), p.129 - 133, 2025/08
Recent studies have shown that the addition of hydrogen to SUS310S stainless steel (Fe-24Cr-19Ni, mass%) simultaneously enhances both strength and ductility, indicating a phenomenon contrary to the conventional understanding of hydrogen embrittlement. In this study, we investigated the underlying mechanism through
neutron diffraction experiments during tensile deformation using TAKUMI at the MLF of J-PARC. The results revealed that solid-solution strengthening by hydrogen plays the most significant role in improving the mechanical properties. Solute hydrogen atoms distort the lattice to suppress dislocation motion, thereby increasing the strength. The raised stress in the hydrogen charged sample enables the onset of deformation twinning at a smaller strain compared to the non-hydrogen charged sample. Consequently, the twinning-induced plasticity effect contributes more significantly to work hardening and the improvement of uniform elongation due to the solid-solution strengthening by hydrogen. These findings suggest a new pathway for the effective utilization of hydrogen in austenitic steels.
高梨 美咲*; 日高 僚太*; 大久保 亘太*; 増村 拓朗*; 土山 聡宏*; 諸岡 聡; 前田 拓也*; 中村 修一*; 植森 龍治*
ISIJ International, 65(9), p.1384 - 1393, 2025/08
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:35.08(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)This study investigates the strengthening mechanism of ausforming in martensitic steels, focusing on the role of dislocation inheritance from austenite. By analyzing Fe-5%Mn-C alloys, the researchers quantified dislocation densities before and after ausforming and examined how carbon content affects hardening. Results show that both hardness and dislocation density of ausformed martensite increase with greater deformation in austenite and higher carbon content. The findings support that ausforming strengthens martensite through dislocation accumulation, consistent with the Bailey-Hirsch relationship.
neutron diffraction revealed that dislocation inheritance occurs only in steels with sufficient carbon, while additional dislocations are introduced during martensitic transformation.
ders band-assisted high uniform ductility in ultrastrong ferrous medium-entropy alloy via hierarchical microstructureKwon, H.*; Lee, J. H.*; Zargaran, A.*; Harjo, S.; Gong, W.; Wang, J.*; Gu, G. H.*; Lee, B.-J.*; Bae, J. W.*; Kim, H. S.*
International Journal of Plasticity, 190, p.104378_1 - 104378_18, 2025/07
被引用回数:11 パーセンタイル:96.52(Engineering, Mechanical)In this work, we harness a hierarchical microstructure to simultaneously tailor strengthening and deformation mechanisms in a Co
Cr
Fe
Ni
Mo
(at%) ferrous medium-entropy alloy (MEA). A simple thermomechanical process (cold rolling and 90 s annealing) produces ultrafine recrystallized grains, non-recrystallized grains with substructures, and intragranular nanoprecipitates. This structure, with high dislocation density and fine grains, yields a high strength of
1.60 GPa but can risk premature fracture. To overcome this, L
ders deformation, enabled by ultrafine grain boundaries and stress-induced martensitic transformation at pre-existing nucleation sites, is employed. Stable L
ders band propagation delays strain hardening and enables large uniform ductility. As a result, a tensile strength of
1.84 GPa and uniform elongation of
20% are achieved, matching the best tensile properties among reported multi-principal element alloys.
Gu, G. H.*; Jeong, S. G.*; Heo, Y.-U.*; Harjo, S.; Gong, W.; Cho, J.*; Kim, H. S.*; 他4名*
Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 223, p.308 - 324, 2025/07
被引用回数:7 パーセンタイル:90.22(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Face-centered cubic (FCC) equi-atomic multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) exhibit excellent mechanical properties from cryogenic to room temperatures. At room temperature, deformation is dominated by dislocation slip, while at cryogenic temperatures (CTs), reduced stacking fault energy enhances strain hardening with twinning. This study uses in-situ neutron diffraction to analyze the temperature-dependent deformation behavior of Al
(CoNiV)
, a dual-phase (FCC/BCC) medium-entropy alloy (MEA). At liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT), deformation twinning in the FCC matrix leads to additional strain hardening through the dynamic Hall-Petch effect, giving the appearance of improved strengthening at LNT. In contrast, BCC precipitates show dislocation slip at both 77 K and 298 K, with temperature-dependent lattice friction stress playing a significant role in strengthening. The study enhances understanding of deformation behaviors and provides insights for future alloy design.
Mao, W.*; Gong, W.; 川崎 卓郎; Gao, S.*; 伊東 達矢; 山下 享介*; Harjo, S.; Zhao, L.*; Wang, Q.*
Scripta Materialia, 264, p.116726_1 - 116726_6, 2025/07
被引用回数:2 パーセンタイル:56.52(Nanoscience & Nanotechnology)An ultrafine-grained 304 austenitic stainless steel exhibited pronounced serrated Luders deformation at 20 K, with stress and temperature oscillations reaching 200 MPa and 20 K.
neutron diffraction and digital image correlation revealed discontinuous Luders band propagation and burst martensite formation. During deformation, austenite phase stress remained lower than at upper yielding, indicating elastic behavior. Notably, martensite phase stress stayed lower than austenite until fracture, likely due to stress relaxation from burst martensitic transformation at 20 K. The low martensite stress delayed brittle fracture until austenite plastically yielded during uniform deformation.
Park, M.-H.*; 柴田 曉伸*; Harjo, S.; 辻 伸泰*
Acta Materialia, 292, p.121061_1 - 121061_13, 2025/06
被引用回数:40 パーセンタイル:99.49(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Dual-phase (DP) steel, composed of soft ferrite and hard martensite, offers excellent strength-ductility balance and low cost. This study found that refining the DP microstructure enhanced both yield strength and strain hardening, improving strength and ductility. Digital image correlation (DIC) revealed strain localization in ferrite, but refinement reduced strain differences between ferrite and martensite, suppressing crack initiation. More ferrite/martensite interfaces promoted plasticity in martensite via enhanced deformation constraint.
neutron diffraction showed martensite bore higher phase stress, which increased with refinement. By combining
-DIC and neutron data, individual stress-strain curves for ferrite and martensite were constructed for the first time, explaining the strength-ductility synergy through interphase constraint. These findings offer guidance for designing heterostructured materials to overcome the strength-ductility trade-off.
大橋 智典*; 坂巻 竜也*; 舟越 賢一*; Steinle-Neumann, G.*; 服部 高典; Yuan, L.*; 鈴木 昭夫*
Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (Internet), 120(1), p.240926a_1 - 240926a_13, 2025/06
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:45.35(Mineralogy)0-6GPa, 1000-1300Kのドライおよび含水Na
Si
O
融体の構造と高温高圧から回収したガラスの構造をその場中性子回折及びX線回折により調べた。また、0-10GPa, 3000Kの融体の構造をab-initio分子動力学シミュレーションにより調べた。その場中性子実験から、-O-D-O-架橋種の形成によりD-O距離が圧縮とともに増加することが明らかになり、分子動力学シミュレーションでも再現された。圧力による-O-D-O-形成は、水素がより強固に取り込まれることを反映しており、実験的に観測されたケイ酸塩融体中の水の高い溶解度のメカニズムとして働く。一方、0-10GPa, 3000KにおけるドライNa
Si
O
の圧縮は、Si-O-Si角の曲げに支配される。さらに、含水Na
Si
O
融体の分子動力学シミュレーションから、圧力上昇とともに、2(
Si-O
+ Na
)
Si-(O-
Si-O)
+ 2Na
およびSi-O
+ Na
+ Si-OH
Si-(O-H-O-Si)
+ Na
で示される反応により、ナトリウムイオンがネットワーク修飾の役割を果たさなくなることを示唆している。
高梨 美咲*; 日高 僚太*; 大久保 亘太*; 増村 拓朗*; 土山 聡宏*; 諸岡 聡; 前田 拓也*; 中村 修一*; 植森 龍治*
鉄と鋼, 111(9), p.503 - 513, 2025/06
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering)The strengthening mechanism of ausforming in martensitic steels is believed to be due to the inheritance of dislocations in austenite by the subsequently transformed martensite. However, no studies to date have quantified the dislocation density before and after ausforming. In this study, the dislocation densities of Fe-5%Mn-C alloys were analyzed, and the relationship between hardening by ausforming and dislocation accumulation, as well as the effect of carbon on this relationship, were investigated. The hardness of ausformed martensite increased with the ausforming reduction in austenite, and the strengthening effect of ausforming increased with the addition of carbon. Similarly, the dislocation density of ausformed martensite increased with the ausforming reduction in austenite, and the dislocation accumulation by ausforming increased with the addition of carbon. Because the hardness of the ausformed martensite follows the Bailey-Hirsch relationship, the strengthening mechanism owing to ausforming could be explained by dislocation strengthening. To understand the dislocation accumulation process during ausforming, the dislocation density of austenite immediately after ausforming was measured by in-situ heating neutron diffraction. Consequently, the dislocation density of the ausformed austenite was not dependent on the carbon content, indicating that dislocations are not inherited in carbon-free steels. By contrast, in steels with sufficient carbon content, not only are dislocations inherited but additional dislocations are introduced during martensitic transformation.