TY - GEN A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Harwardt, Michael A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Illerhaus, Bernhard A1 - Goebbels, Jürgen A1 - Bamberg, J. A1 - Heutling, F. T1 - 3D Refraction Computed Tomography Applied to Metal Matrix Composites N2 - For the first time Metal Matrix Composites (MMC) have been investigated by 3D Computed Tomography combined with enhanced interface contrast due to X-ray refraction. X-ray refraction is a relatively new approach for the characterization of advanced materials. The related techniques of Refraction Topography and Refraction Computed Tomography have been developed and applied at our laboratory during the last decade to meet the actual demand for improved nondestructive characterization of high performance composites, ceramics and other low density materials and components. X-ray refraction occurs, when X-rays crosses interfaces of spherical or cylindrical shape (e.g. pores or fibres) in the same way as visible light is refracted by lenses. These X-ray optical effects can be observed at small scattering angles of few minutes of arc as the refractive index n of X-rays is nearly unity (n = 1 – 10-6). Due to the short X-ray wavelength of about 0.1 nm the technique determines the amount of inner surfaces and interfaces of nanometer dimensions. The technique is expected to solve many problems in understanding the meaning of micro and sub micro structures in materials science. With the results of the CT investigation, some questions could be clarified for a better understanding of fatigue failure mechanisms under cyclic loading conditions. The specimens for the test programme have been provided by MTU Aero Engines. They consist of a titanium matrix (Ti6242) reinforced by SiC fibres (SCS6). The investigations have been performed at the materials research station of BAM (BAMline) at the Synchrotron Facility BESSY in Berlin, Germany. T2 - 35th International SAMPE technical conference CY - Dayton, OH, USA DA - 2003-09-28 KW - Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) KW - Characterization KW - Titanium Metal Matrix Composites (Ti-MMC) KW - Ti6242 KW - SCS6 PY - 2003 SN - 0-938994-95-6 PB - SAMPE CY - Covina, Calif. AN - OPUS4-2780 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. T1 - 3D Synchrotron Refraction Computed Tomography T2 - Aerospace Testing EXPO 2005, BAM Messestand CY - Hamburg, Germany DA - 2005-04-05 PY - 2005 AN - OPUS4-11749 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas T1 - A comfortable procedure for correcting X-ray detector backlight N2 - A novel approach is suggested to strongly suppress artifacts in radiography and computed tomography caused by the effect of diffuse background signals 'backlighting' of 2D X-ray detectors. Depending on the detector geometry the mechanism may be different. Either based on the optical scattering of the fluorescent screen materials into the optical detection devices or Compton or X-ray fluorescence scattering by the detector components. Consequently, these erroneous intensity portions result in locally different violations of Lambert Beer's law in single projections (radiographs) as a function of the detector area coverage and the magnitude of the attenuation. The absorption of multiple metal sheets is investigated by monochromatic synchrotron radiation, thus excluding beam hardening. The proposed correction procedure simply requires the individual subtraction of one and the same fraction of the primary and transmitted mean intensity, as a constant (non-local) scattering mechanism is assumed. KW - X-ray detector backlighting KW - Radiography KW - Fluorescent screen KW - Diffuse background KW - Computed tomography PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/425/19/192015 SN - 1742-6588 SN - 1742-6596 VL - 425 IS - 19 SP - 192015-1 EP - 192015-4 PB - IOP Publ. CY - Bristol, UK AN - OPUS4-28262 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas ED - Kastner, J. T1 - A comfortable procedure for correcting X-ray detector backlight T2 - Conference on industrial computed tomography CY - Wels, Austria DA - 2012-09-19 KW - X-ray detector backlighting KW - Radiography KW - Fluorescent screen KW - Diffuse background KW - Computed tomography PY - 2012 SN - 978-3-8440-1281-1 SN - 1610-4773 SP - 151 EP - 157 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen AN - OPUS4-26768 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tötzke, C. A1 - Manke, I. A1 - Gaiselmann, G. A1 - Bohner, J. A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Kupsch, Andreas A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Schmidt, V. A1 - Banhart, J. A1 - Lehnert, W. T1 - A dedicated compression device for high resolution X-ray tomography of compressed gas diffusion layers N2 - We present an experimental approach to study the three-dimensional microstructure of gas diffusion layer (GDL) materials under realistic compression conditions. A dedicated compression device was designed that allows for synchrotron-tomographic investigation of circular samples under well-defined compression conditions. The tomographic data provide the experimental basis for stochastic modeling of nonwoven GDL materials. A plain compression tool is used to study the fiber courses in the material at different compression stages. Transport relevant geometrical parameters, such as porosity, pore size, and tortuosity distributions, are exemplarily evaluated for a GDL sample in the uncompressed state and for a compression of 30 vol.%. To mimic the geometry of the flow-field, we employed a compression punch with an integrated channel-rib-profile. It turned out that the GDL material is homogeneously compressed under the ribs, however, much less compressed underneath the channel. GDL fibers extend far into the channel volume where they might interfere with the convective gas transport and the removal of liquid water from the cell. KW - PEM fuel cell KW - Gas diffusion layer (GDL) KW - Compression device KW - X-ray tomography KW - Synchrotron KW - Tortuosity PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918291 SN - 0034-6748 SN - 1089-7623 VL - 86 IS - 4 SP - 043702-1 EP - 043702-6 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-33081 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Michaeli, W. A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Lingk, O. T1 - A novel approach for measuring the specific volume of (semi-crystalline) polymers at elevated cooling rates using X-rays T2 - ANTEC 2007, Annual technical conference CY - Cincinnati, OH, USA DA - 2007-05-06 KW - Thermoplaste KW - Rekristallisation KW - Quenching KW - Monochromatische Radiometrie KW - Kurzzeit-Radiometrie KW - Röntgen-Szintillationsdetektor hoher Zählraten PY - 2007 SN - 0-9753707-5-8 SP - 1617 EP - 1621 PB - Society of Plastics Engineers AN - OPUS4-17186 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ewert, Uwe A1 - Osterloh, Kurt A1 - Kupsch, Andreas A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Beckmann, Jörg A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. ED - Beyerer, J. T1 - Advanced radiological technologies for imaging and characterisation of threats T2 - 2nd Security Research Conference "Future Security" CY - Karlsruhe, Germany DA - 2007-09-12 KW - Threat Detection KW - Dual Energy KW - Multiple View Inspection KW - Terahertz Imaging KW - Explosives PY - 2007 SN - 978-3-86644-147-7 SP - 116 EP - 119 PB - Universitätsverl. CY - Karlsruhe AN - OPUS4-18348 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Issever, A.S. A1 - Diederichs, G. A1 - Majumdar, S. A1 - Rogalla, P. A1 - Hamm, B.K. A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Harwardt, Michael A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Müller, Bernd R. T1 - Analyser-based tomography images of cartilage N2 - Analyser-based imaging expands the performance of X-ray imaging by utilizing not only the absorption properties of X-rays but also the refraction and scatter rejection (extinction) properties. In this study, analyser-based computed tomography has been implemented on imaging an articular cartilage sample, depicting substructural variations, without overlay, at a pixel resolution of 3.6 µm. KW - Cartilage KW - Analyser-based imaging KW - Computed tomography PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1107/S0909049508014829 SN - 0909-0495 SN - 1600-5775 VL - 15 IS - Part 5 SP - 525 EP - 527 PB - Blackwell Publishing CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-17852 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kupsch, Andreas A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Lange, Axel A1 - Grothausmann, R. A1 - Manke, I. T1 - Application of the DIRECTT algorithm to sub-nanometer electron tomography N2 - Tomography data obtained from transmission electron microscopes are especially attractive due to their unrivaled spatial resolution in the nanometer range or even less, but they require enormous efforts in sample preparation and suffer from a diverse accumulation of experimental restrictions, which unavoidably result in fundamental reconstruction artifacts. These restrictions refer to: partial opacity, a limited view (limited angle or missing wedge), very few angles (with respect to the detector size), limited to a region of interest (ROI; due to the sample size), variable angular increments as well as sample degradation due the interactions with the electron beam. An advanced version of the DIRECTT (Direct Iterative Reconstruction of Computed Tomography Trajectories) algorithm proves to cope with most of these severe deviations from ideal CT measuring conditions. However, careful data preprocessing is required in order to exploit the capabilities of the algorithm. Nanometer sized Ruthenium catalyst particles for fuel cell applications are 3D imaged at a few Ångström resolution in order to estimate their partial free surface on carbon black supports, which rule the efficiency of the catalytic activity. Comparisons of DIRECTT reconstructions to the conventional filtered back projection, prove the significant improvements. T2 - DIR 2011 - International symposium on digital industrial raidology and computed tomography CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 20.06.2011 KW - Electron tomography KW - Computed tomography KW - Reconstruction algorithms PY - 2011 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-243577 SN - 978-3-940283-34-4 IS - DGZfP-BB 128 (Tu.3.3) SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Deutsche Gesellscahft für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung e.V. (DGZfP) AN - OPUS4-24357 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Bernd R. A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Hentschel, Manfred P. A1 - Riesemeier, Heinrich A1 - Krumrey, M. A1 - Ulm, G. A1 - Diete, W. A1 - Klein, U. A1 - Frahm, R. T1 - BAMlin - the first hard X-ray beamline at BESSY II N2 - The first hard X-ray beamline at BESSY II will be installed by BAM and PTB at a superconducting 7 T wavelength shifter. The main optical elements of the beamline are a Double-Multilayer-Monochromator and a Double-Crystal-Monochromator. The two devices can be used separately or in-line. Main applications of monochromatic radiation with photon energies up to 50 keV are X-ray fluorescence analysis, micro-computed tomography, X-ray topography, detector calibration and reflectometry. Calculable undispersed radiation up to 200 keV will be available for radiometric applications. KW - Double-Multilayer-Monochromator with meridional bender KW - Double-Crystal-Monochromator with sagittal bender KW - X-ray fluorescence analysis KW - Micro-computed tomography KW - X-ray topography KW - Detector calibration KW - Reflectometry PY - 2001 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00466-1 SN - 0168-9002 SN - 0167-5087 VL - 467-468 IS - 1 SP - 703 EP - 706 PB - North-Holland CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-1171 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -