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Residual Stress Measurement of Titanium Casting Alloy by Neutron Diffraction

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Neutron stress measurement can detect strain and stress information in deep region because of largepenetration ability of neutron beams. The present paper describes procedure and results in the residual stressmeasurement of titanium casting alloy by neutron diffraction. In this study, the three axial method using Hooke'sequation was employed for neutron stress measurement. This method was applied to the cylindrical shape sample oftitanium casting alloy (Ti-6AI-4V). Form the results of this study, this sample has large crystal grain in the inside wholeposition, it is assumed this large grain was grown up during casting manufacture process. Furthermore, the peak profileused to the stress measurement appears in very weak because of the HCP crystal system of titanium character and effectof large crystal grain. These conditions usually make difficult to measure the accuracy values of residual stresses.Therefore, it had to spend a long time to measure the satisfied data from titanium sample. Regarding to the results ofstress measurement, the stress values in the cylindrical sample of three directions is almost same tendency, and residualstresses change from the compressive state in the outer part to the tensile state in the inner part gradually.Keywords: Titanium, Residual stress, Neutron diffraction, Nondestructive estimation. M. Nishidal,*, T. Jing2, M. R. Muslih3 and T. Hanabusa4JDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Kobe City College of Technology, Kobe, Japan2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin institute of Technology, Harbin, China3Neutron Scattering Laboratory, BATAN, Kawasan Puspiptek Serpong , Indonesia4Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology and Science, Tokushima University , Tokushima, Japan