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  • grain growth and texture evolution in ti 6al 4v during beta annealing under Continuous Heating conditions
    Materials Science and Engineering A-structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing, 2002
    Co-Authors: O M Ivasishin, S L Semiatin, P E Markovsky, S V Shevchenko, S V Ulshin
    Abstract:

    Abstract The kinetics of beta grain growth during Continuous Heating for two texturally-different, but microstructurally-equivalent, lots of Ti–6Al–4V material were determined using a direct-resistance-Heating technique. Heating rates of 0.42, 5, 10, and 50 K s−1 were utilized. After reaching the peak temperature, a special cooling procedure was utilized to avoid complete decomposition of the beta phase during cool-down and thus enable direct determination of its texture at the end of high-temperature annealing. It was found that beta grain growth is strongly affected by texture whose evolution can give rise to a behavior which is disContinuous in nature. As a result, dramatic differences in grain-growth behavior were noted in the two lots of material and were explained in terms of variations in beta texture evolution during heat treatment.

Chigyu Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A comparative study of ultra-trace-level uranium by thermal ionization mass spectrometry with Continuous Heating: Static and peak-jumping modes
    Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020
    Co-Authors: Chigyu Lee, Ranhee Park, Jinkyu Park, Sang Ho Lim
    Abstract:

    Abstract For ensuring nuclear safeguards, we report the analytical signal-detection performance of thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) with Continuous Heating for the measurement of isotopic ratios in samples containing ultra-trace amounts of uranium. As methods for detecting uranium signals, peak-jumping mode using a single detector and static mode using multiple detectors were examined with U100 (10% 235U-enriched) uranium standard samples in the femtogram-to-picogram range. Uranium isotope ratios, n(235U)/n(238U), were measured down to levels of 1 fg and 3 fg in static and peak-jumping modes, respectively, while n(234U)/n(238U) and n(236U)/n(238U) values were measured down to levels of 100 fg in both modes. In addition, the dependency of the 238U signal intensity on sample quantity exhibited similar tendencies in both modes. The precisions of the isotope ratios obtained in the static mode over all sample ranges used in this study were overall slightly higher than those obtained in peak-jumping mode. These results indicate that isotope ratio measurements by TIMS with Continuous Heating are almost independent of the detection method, i.e., peak-jumping mode or static mode, which is characteristic of isotope-ratio measurements using the TIMS method with Continuous Heating. TIMS with Continuous Heating is advantageous as it exhibits the properties of multiple detectors within a single detector, and is expected to be used in various fields in addition to ensuring nuclear safeguards.

  • Ultra-trace analysis of plutonium by thermal ionization mass spectrometry with a Continuous Heating technique without chemical separation.
    Talanta, 2015
    Co-Authors: Chigyu Lee, Daisuke Suzuki, Masaaki Magara, Fumitaka Esaka, Kyuseok Song
    Abstract:

    Abstract Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) with a Continuous Heating technique is known as an effective method for measuring the isotope ratio in trace amounts of uranium. In this study, the analytical performance of thermal ionization mass spectrometry with a Continuous Heating technique was investigated using a standard plutonium solution (SRM 947). The influence of the Heating rate of the evaporation filament on the precision and accuracy of the isotope ratios was examined using a plutonium solution sample at the fg level. Changing the Heating rate of the evaporation filament on samples ranging from 0.1 fg to 1000 fg revealed that the influence of the Heating rate on the precision and accuracy of the isotope ratios was slight around the Heating rate range of 100–250 mA/min. All of the isotope ratios of plutonium (SRM 947), 238Pu/239Pu, 240Pu/239Pu, 241Pu/239Pu and 242Pu/239Pu, were measured down to sample amounts of 70 fg. The ratio of 240Pu/239Pu was measured down to a sample amount of 0.1 fg, which corresponds to a PuO2 particle with a diameter of 0.2 μm. Moreover, the signals of 239Pu could be detected with a sample amount of 0.03 fg, which corresponds to the detection limit of 239Pu of 0.006 fg as estimated by the 3-sigma criterion. 238Pu and 238U were clearly distinguished owing to the difference in the evaporation temperature between 238Pu and 238U. In addition, 241Pu and 241Am formed by the decay of 241Pu can be discriminated owing to the difference in the evaporation temperature. As a result, the ratios of 238Pu/239Pu and 241Pu/239Pu as well as 240Pu/239Pu and 242Pu/239Pu in plutonium samples could be measured by TIMS with a Continuous Heating technique and without any chemical separation processes.

  • a new method for isotope ratio measurement of uranium in trace amount by thermal ionization mass spectrometry the Continuous Heating method
    International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2010
    Co-Authors: Daisuke Suzuki, Yoko Saitokokubu, S Sakurai, Chigyu Lee, Masaaki Magara, Kazunari Iguchi, Takaumi Kimura
    Abstract:

    Abstract A new method for isotope ratio measurement with thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS), “Continuous Heating method”, was developed in order to determine an accurate isotope ratio of uranium ranging from sub-picograms to several dozen picograms. In this method, signals were measured during evaporation of an entire sample in the same way as in the “total evaporation method”; however, part of the higher detected signals was used for calculation of the isotope ratio. The Continuous Heating method can measure the ratios with high reproducibility regardless of the sample amount and the skill of operators because procedures of measurement and data calculation were standardized, enabling accurate correction of the mass discrimination effect. By using the optimized procedures, the relative standard deviation (2 σ ) of 235 U/ 238 U ratio in CRM U350 particle (35% 235 U enrichment) with a diameter of about 1 μm was less than 2%. When 235 U/ 238 U ratios in IRMM 184 (natural uranium) solution samples of uranium of 0.4, 4 and 44 pg measured by the Continuous Heating method were compared with those measured by the conventional method and the total evaporation method, which were well-known methods of TIMS, there was no difference in the case of measurement of a larger amount of samples. However, the Continuous Heating method showed the most accurate result for the smallest amount of samples.

Kyuseok Song - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Ultra-trace analysis of plutonium by thermal ionization mass spectrometry with a Continuous Heating technique without chemical separation.
    Talanta, 2015
    Co-Authors: Chigyu Lee, Daisuke Suzuki, Masaaki Magara, Fumitaka Esaka, Kyuseok Song
    Abstract:

    Abstract Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) with a Continuous Heating technique is known as an effective method for measuring the isotope ratio in trace amounts of uranium. In this study, the analytical performance of thermal ionization mass spectrometry with a Continuous Heating technique was investigated using a standard plutonium solution (SRM 947). The influence of the Heating rate of the evaporation filament on the precision and accuracy of the isotope ratios was examined using a plutonium solution sample at the fg level. Changing the Heating rate of the evaporation filament on samples ranging from 0.1 fg to 1000 fg revealed that the influence of the Heating rate on the precision and accuracy of the isotope ratios was slight around the Heating rate range of 100–250 mA/min. All of the isotope ratios of plutonium (SRM 947), 238Pu/239Pu, 240Pu/239Pu, 241Pu/239Pu and 242Pu/239Pu, were measured down to sample amounts of 70 fg. The ratio of 240Pu/239Pu was measured down to a sample amount of 0.1 fg, which corresponds to a PuO2 particle with a diameter of 0.2 μm. Moreover, the signals of 239Pu could be detected with a sample amount of 0.03 fg, which corresponds to the detection limit of 239Pu of 0.006 fg as estimated by the 3-sigma criterion. 238Pu and 238U were clearly distinguished owing to the difference in the evaporation temperature between 238Pu and 238U. In addition, 241Pu and 241Am formed by the decay of 241Pu can be discriminated owing to the difference in the evaporation temperature. As a result, the ratios of 238Pu/239Pu and 241Pu/239Pu as well as 240Pu/239Pu and 242Pu/239Pu in plutonium samples could be measured by TIMS with a Continuous Heating technique and without any chemical separation processes.