A new apparatus for measuring mechanical properties at moderate confining pressures in a neutron beamline

Stephen J. Covey-Crump; Robert F. Holloway; Paul F. Schofield; Mark R. Daymond

doi:10.1107/S0021889806003980

A new apparatus for measuring mechanical properties at moderate confining pressures in a neutron beamline

Stephen J. Covey-Crump, Robert F. Holloway, Paul F. Schofield, Mark R. Daymond

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A simple pressure vessel suitable for use at room temperature has been developed which allows neutron diffraction data to be collected from cylindrical samples of up to 10 mm diameter, at confining pressures of up to 160 MPa, whilst they are also being deformed in compression by the application of a uniaxially symmetric load. The vessel has been commissioned on the ENGIN-X beamline at the ISIS neutron facility (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK). The commissioning results show that neutron diffraction data of quality equivalent to that obtained using an identical experiment geometry at room pressure can be acquired using the pressure vessel with only about a factor of two increase in count times. © 2006 International Union of Crystallography Printed in Great Britain - all rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	222-229
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Applied Crystallography
Volume	39
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889806003980
Publication status	Published - Apr 2006

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