TY - CHAP A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Große, M. A1 - Schillinger, B. ED - Fritzsche, H. ED - Huot, J. ED - Fruchart, D. T1 - Neutron imaging N2 - Neutron imaging methods are appropriate to investigate hydrogen distributions in several metallic systems. The large total neutron cross section of hydrogen compared to those of elements or isotopes, respectively, in usual structural materials like steels or zirconium alloys allows the detection even of small amounts of hydrogen in such materials. The dependence of the total macroscopic neutron cross section of the sample or component on the hydrogen concentration can be determined experimentally by means of calibration specimens with known hydrogen concentrations. Such a calibration allows for a full quantitative determination of the local hydrogen concentration with a spatial resolution better than 20 μm. Because neutron radiography is fast and non-destructive, in situ investigations of time-dependent processes like hydrogen absorption and release or hydrogen bulk diffusion can be performed. This chapter gives an introduction into the main neutron imaging methods, radiography and tomography, and gives as examples results of neutron imaging investigations of hydrogen in different steels and in zirconium alloys,respectively. KW - Neutron imaging KW - Neutron radiography KW - Hydrogen PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-22792-4 SN - 978-3-319-22791-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22792-4_7 SN - 1868-0380 SN - 1868-0372 SP - Chapter 7, 193 EP - 225 PB - Springer Nature CY - Zurich, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-36365 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Schulz, M. A1 - Kardjilov, N. 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 A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas T1 - Imaging of Hydrogen in Steels with Neutrons N2 - Cold neutrons are predominantly scattered at hydrogen when penetrating hydrogen-charged samples, resulting in a high image contrast between hydrogen and e.g. iron. The used radiographic set-ups consist of a neutron source, state-of-the-art scintillator screens and digital cameras. This allows monitoring diffusive hydrogen fluxes two-dimensionally with 20s temporal resolution. Such hydrogen fluxes can be quantified by using standards with known hydrogen content and similar sample thickness. Neutron tomography generates three-dimensional models of the hydrogen distribution in steel. Such models gain new insight for damage analysis by showing the hydrogen accumulations around cracks and by enabling the hydrogen gas pressure estimation inside cracks. The capabilities and limitations, as well as perspectives of this method will be discussed and illustrated with help of selected examples. T2 - MS&T 2016 CY - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA DA - 23.10.2016 KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Neutron imaging KW - Neutron radiography KW - Neutron tomography PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38066 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dabah, Eitan A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Kardjilov, N. A1 - Manke, I. A1 - Boin, M. A1 - Woracek, R. A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Time-resolved Bragg-edge neutron radiography for observing martensitic phase transformation from austenitized super martensitic steel N2 - Neutron Bragg-edge imaging was applied for the visualization of a γ-Austenite to α'-martensite phase transformation. In the present study, a super martensitic stainless steel sample was heated until complete austenitization and was subsequently cooled down to room temperature. The martensitic phase Transformation started at Ms = 190 °C. Using a monochromatic neutron beam with λ = 0.390 nm, the transmitted intensity was significantly reduced during cooling below Ms, since the emerging martensitic phase has a higher attenuation coefficient than the austenitic phase at this wavelength. The phase Transformation process was visualized by filming the transmission images from a scintillator screen with a CCD camera with a temporal resolution of 30 s and a spatial resolution of 100 µm. KW - Neutron imaging KW - Bragg-edge imaging KW - Phase transformation PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0642-9 SN - 0022-2461 SN - 1573-4803 VL - 52 IS - 6 SP - 3490 EP - 3496 AN - OPUS4-38574 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Schulz, M. A1 - Kardjilov, N. ED - Duprez, Lode 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 - Third International Conference on Metals & Hydrogen CY - Ghent, Belgium DA - 29.05.2018 KW - Hydrogen KW - Steel KW - Neutron imaging PY - 2018 SN - 978-9-08179-422-0 SP - J01 AN - OPUS4-45359 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Hannemann, Andreas A1 - Schultz, Michael A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - On the Genesis of Artifacts in Neutron Transmission Imaging of Hydrogenous Steel Specimens N2 - Hydrogen-charged supermartensitic steel samples were used to systematically investigate imaging artifacts in neutron radiography. Cadmium stencils were placed around the samples to shield the scintillator from excessive neutron radiation and to investigate the influence of the backlight effect. The contribution of scattered neutrons to the total detected intensity was investigated by additionally varying the sample-detector distance and applying a functional correlation between distance and intensity. Furthermore, the influence of the surface roughness on the edge effect due to refraction was investigated. KW - Refraction KW - Neutron imaging KW - Hydrogen KW - Supermartensitic steel KW - Backlight KW - Scattering PY - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-506587 VL - 6 IS - 22 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - MDPI CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-50658 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Schillinger, B. A1 - Schulz, M. A1 - Kardjilov, N. A1 - Manke, I. T1 - Measurement of Hydrogen Distributions in Metals by Neutron Radiography and Tomography N2 - Neutron imaging is a valuable tool for measuring hydrogen distributions qualitatively and quantitatively in metals. Time-resolved neutron radiography allows to measure hydrogen mass flow inside cm thick steel samples with ~10 s temporal resolution. Hydrogen accumulations around cracks in embrittled iron samples can be visualized three-dimensionally by neutron tomography. This quality of information allows new insights for the analysis of damage mechanisms on a micrometer scale, e.g. of hydrogen blistering. Even the gas pressure of molecular hydrogen in crack cavities has been measured from tomographic reconstructions to be in the range of 5 MPa to 15 MPa for technical iron. Further, this method is non-destructive and provides local information in situ and in all three dimensions with a spatial resolution of 20 - 30 µm. The combination with other methods gives a new quality of information, e.g. of the hydrogen allocation on fractured surfaces. T2 - Symposium on large scale facilities CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 09.03.2020 KW - Hydrogen embrittlement KW - Neutron imaging KW - Hydrogen diffusion KW - Neutron radiography KW - Neutron tomography PY - 2020 AN - OPUS4-50548 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Hydrogen in Metals Visualized by Neutron Imaging N2 - Neutron cameras allow visualizing hydrogen distributions with radiographic or tomographic imaging methods in iron (and steel) and many other metals. The necessary contrast between hydrogen and these metals 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 metal samples with a temporal resolution of at best 10 s using neutron radiography as well as the quantitative measurement of hydrogen accumulations, e.g., at the crack’s inner surfaces in hydrogen embrittled iron samples with neutron tomography. This new quality of the information on a micrometer scale allows new insights for the analysis of hydrogen-assisted damage mechanisms. Further, this method is non-destructive and provides local information in situ and in three dimensions with a spatial resolution of 20 μm - 30 μm. In this contribution, we give a short historical overview of neutron imaging and show examples that demonstrate the spatial and temporal resolution of the neutron radiography and tomography methods in order to visualize and quantify hydrogen accumulations, absorption processes, and diffusion. The examples are taken from the works of researchers dealing with titanium, palladium, zirconium, and iron or steel. More detailed descriptions of the experimental and analytic procedures are given for hydrogen detection using radiography and tomography on iron and steel samples. KW - Hydrogen assisted cracking KW - Neutron imaging PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5006/3104 SN - 0010-9312 VL - 75 IS - 8 SP - 903 EP - 910 PB - NACE International AN - OPUS4-48775 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Pfretzschner, Beate A1 - Schaupp, Thomas A1 - Kannengießer, Thomas A1 - Kardjilov, N. ED - Somerday, B. P. ED - Sofronis, P. T1 - Measurement of hydrogen distributions in metals by neutron radiography and tomography N2 - Neutron imaging has become a valuable tool for measuring hydrogen distributions qualitatively and quantitatively in metals. Hydrogen mass flow can be measured inside cm thick Steel samples with 10 s temporal resolution. Hydrogen accumulations around craclcs in embrittled iron samples can be visualized three-dimensionally. The gas pressure of hydrogen in crack cavities has been measured to be in the ränge of 5 MPa to 15 MPa. This quality of information allows new insights for the analysis of damage mechanisms on a micrometer scale, e.g., of hydrogen blistering. Further, this method is nondestructive and provides local information in situ and in three dimensions with a spatial resolution of 20 µm - 30 µm. T2 - International Hydrogen Conference 2016 CY - Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming, USA DA - 11.09.2017 KW - Hydrogen KW - Neutron imaging KW - Neutron radiography KW - Neutron tomography PY - 2017 SN - 978-0-7918-6138-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/1.861387_ch46 SP - 416 EP - 422 AN - OPUS4-42505 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jamro, R. A1 - Mente, Tobias A1 - Kardjilov, N. A1 - Markötter, Henning A1 - Al-Falahat, Ala'A. M. A1 - Woracek, R. A1 - Manke, I. A1 - Griesche, Axel T1 - Temperature distribution during welding measured by neutron imaging N2 - This study was carried out to investigate the neutron transmission signal as a function of sample temperature during a welding process. A theoretical description that includes the Debye-Waller factor was used to describe the temperature influence on the neutron crosssections. Neutron imaging using a monochromatic beam helps to observe transmission variations related to the material temperature. In-situ neutron imaging of welding experiments show the distribution of the temperature in bulk steel samples. The performed finite element modelling of expected temperature distributions shows good agreement with the obtained experimental data. KW - Neutron imaging KW - Debye-Waller-Faktor PY - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-586268 VL - 2605 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - IOP Publishing Ltd. AN - OPUS4-58626 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -