TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Schaupp, Thomas T1 - Hydrogen in steel visualized by neutron imaging N2 - Neutron cameras allow visualizing hydrogen distributions with radiographic or tomographic imaging methods in iron and steel. The necessary contrast between hydrogen and iron stems from the high difference in the total neutron cross section of both elements. This allows e.g. the in situ measurement of hydrogen mass flow inside cm thick steel samples with a temporal resolution of 20 s using neutron radiography as well as the quantitative measurement of hydrogen accumulations at the crack’s inner surfaces in hydrogen embrittled iron samples with neutron tomography. We could detect directly gaseous hydrogen in the crack cavities and we measured the gas pressure. This new quality of the information on a micrometer scale allows new insights for the analysis of hydrogen-induced damage mechanisms. Further, this method is non-destructive and provides local information in situ and in three dimensions with a spatial resolution of 20-30 μm. In this contribution, we show examples that demonstrate the spatial and temporal resolution of the neutron radiography and tomography methods in order to visualize and quantify hydrogen accumulations at cracks. The measurements were performed at the research reactor BER II of the HZB in Berlin and at the FRM II reactor of the neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz in Garching. T2 - 3rd international conference on metals & hydrogen CY - Ghent, Belgium DA - 29.05.2018 KW - Hydrogen KW - Neutron KW - Radiography KW - Tomography KW - Steel PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-45074 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Markötter, Henning A1 - Al-Falahat, M. A1 - Kardjilov, N. T1 - Neutron Bragg edge imaging for in situ mapping of crystallographic phase-transformations and of temperature distributions during GTAW of supermartensitic stainless steel N2 - In Neutron-Bragg-Edge Imaging (NBEI) experiments, we studied the phase transition during butt-welding of supermartensitic steel plates. Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) was used with a motorized torch allowing for automated weldments. The austenitization in the heat affected zone (HAZ) underneath the welding head could be clearly visualized at λ = 0.39 nm, a wavelength smaller than the Bragg edge wavelengths of both austenite and martensite. Also, the re-transformation into the martensitic phase upon cooling was detected. However, we observed an unexpected additional change in transmission at λ = 0.44 nm that is a wavelength larger than the wavelength of the Bragg edges of both the martensitic and austenitic phases. We attribute this change to the Deybe-Waller-Factor that describes the temperature dependence of coherent scattering at a crystal lattice. The observed two-dimensional attenuation map corresponds well with a temperature distribution modelling by software macros in ANSYS. Here, the absolute temperature values could be achieved by calibrating the modelled attenuation with help of a thermocouple placed at the steel plate. This allows in return for a direct two-dimensional temperature reading based on the Debye-Waller-relation between neutron attenuation and sample temperature. T2 - ITMNR-9 CY - Buenos Aires, Argentina DA - 12.10.2022 KW - Debye-Waller-Faktor PY - 2023 AN - OPUS4-58627 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Crystallographic phase transformations and corresponding temperature distributions during gtaw of supermartensitic stainless steel visualized by nbei N2 - We investigated the phase transformations during butt-welding of supermartensitic steel plates with help of Neutron-Bragg-Edge Imaging (NBEI). Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) was used with a motorized torch allowing for automated weldments. The austenitization in the heat affected zone (HAZ) could be clearly visualized at λ = 0.39 nm, a wavelength smaller than the Bragg edge wavelengths of both austenite and martensite. The re-transformation into the martensitic phase during cooling was clearly detected. However, we observed an unexpected additional change in transmission at λ = 0.44 nm, a wavelength larger than the wavelength of the Bragg edges of both the martensitic and austenitic phases. We attribute this change to the Deybe-Waller-Factor that describes the temperature dependence of coherent scattering at a crystal lattice. The observed two-dimensional attenuation map corresponds well with a temperature distribution modelling by software macros in ANSYS [3]. Here, the absolute temperature values could be achieved by calibrating the modelled attenuation with help of a thermocouple placed at the steel plate. This allows in return for a direct two-dimensional temperature reading based on the Debye-Waller-relation between neutron attenuation and sample temperature. T2 - WCNR-12 CY - Idaho Falls, Id, USA DA - 02.06.2024 KW - Neutron KW - Radiography KW - Welding PY - 2024 AN - OPUS4-60242 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Measurement of hydrogen distributions in metals by neutron radiography and tomography N2 - In recent years, the optimization of the imaging stations at research reactors and especially the further development of the neutron detectors allowed the measurement of hydrogen distributions with increasing spatial and temporal resolution at lower detection limits at the same time. Hydrogen has compared to iron a high total neutron cross section, which allows with basic radiographic methods the visualization of hydrogen in two and three dimensions inside the microstructure of components. This enables the in situ measuring of hydrogen mass flows inside cm thick steel samples with a temporal resolution of 20 s as well as the quantitative measurement of hydrogen accumulations at the crack’s inner surfaces in hydrogen embrittled iron samples. For the first time, we detected directly gaseous hydrogen in the crack cavities and we could measure the gas pressure. This new quality of the information on a micrometer scale allows new insights for the analysis of damage mechanisms, e.g. of hydrogen embrittlement. Further, this method is non-destructive and provides local information in situ and in three dimensions with a spatial resolution of 20-30 µm, which is not accessible with common methods as e.g. thermal desorption spectroscopy. In this contribution, we show examples that demonstrate the spatial and temporal resolution of the neutron radiography and tomography method in order to visualize and quantify hydrogen accumulations at cracks. The measurements were performed at the research reactor BER II of HZB in Berlin and at the FRM II reactor of the neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz in Garching. T2 - 2016 International Hydrogen Conference CY - Moran, Wyoming, USA DA - 11.09.2016 KW - Neutron imaging KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Neutron tomography KW - Neutron radiography PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37700 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - MEASURING HYDROGEN DISTRIBUTIONS IN IRON AND STEEL USING NEUTRONS T2 - 10th World Conference on Neutron Radiography (WCNR-10) CY - Grindelwald, Switzerland DA - 2014-10-05 PY - 2014 AN - OPUS4-31666 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Influence of thermodynamic forces on diffusion in melts N2 - We report about diffusion measurements and molecular dynamic simulations in Al-Ni and Al-Cu melts. Capillary methods were used to measure Ni and Cu self diffusion and to measure interdiffusion. The combination of the capillary set-up with X-ray radiography allowed in-situ detecting of convective contributions to the interdiffusion transport by tracking the time dependence of diffusion. Thus, the determination of the interdiffusion coefficient can be restricted to convection-free experiment times resulting in an increased accuracy of the measured interdiffusion coefficient. Additionally, quasielastic neutron scattering was used to measure convection-free Ni and Cu self diffusion. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to determine all diffusion coefficients and the thermodynamic factor. The comparison between experiment and simulation shows an excellent agreement of the interdiffusion coefficients as a function of temperature. It was found that interdiffusion is enhanced by thermodynamic forces with a maximum around the stoichiometric composition. T2 - TMS 2011 CY - San Diego, CA, USA DA - 2011-02-27 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-23340 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Diffusion of hydrogen in steels T2 - DLR-Seminar CY - Cologne, Germany DA - 2011-02-15 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-23341 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Thermodynamics and Correlation Effects on Diffusion in Al-Ni Melts T2 - NIST Diffusion Workshop Series: Multicomponen Diffusion Data and Its Impact on the Materials Design Process: Data Needed; Daa Acquisition; and Data Application CY - Gaithersburg, MD, USA DA - 2012-05-03 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-25895 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - World Materials Research Institute Forum - An Introduction T2 - NIST Diffusion Workshop Series: Multicomponen Diffusion Data and Its Impact on the Materials Design Process: Data Needed; Data Acquisition; and Data Application CY - Gaithersburg, MD, USA DA - 2012-05-03 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-25896 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Research on materials simulation and the promotion of global databases - activities within the world materials research institute forum (WMRIF) T2 - MS&T 2013 Symposium: Material Data and Software Tools Needed to Make MGI and ICME a Reality CY - Montreal, Canada DA - 2013-10-28 PY - 2013 AN - OPUS4-29459 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -