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Modern Alloy Analysis and Identification with a Portable X-ray Analyzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Stanislaw Piorek
Stanislaw Piorek*
Affiliation:
Columbia Scientific Industries P.O. Box 203190 Austin, Texas 78720
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Abstract

The combination of an improved resolution, gas proportional detector with advanced microprocessor technology provides a new and unique solution to the problem of alloy analysis.

A field portable, microprocessor controlled, fully user-programmable x-ray analyser is described for fast, reliable, on-site, positive alloy identification and assay. The radio-isotope based analyser employs a modified Lueas-Tooth and Price model of intensity corrections for quantitative, multielement analysis. Applications are reviewed and include examples to show the superior performance of the instrument in such difficult eases as sulfur in carbon steels, and titanium and nickel in stainless steels.

Discussion of the unique alloy identification scheme and its underlying principles is followed by examples of applications illustrating the capabilities of the instrument in distinguishing, in 5 seconds, alloys of closely similar compositions such as stainless steels 303, 304 and 321, and 410 and 416.

Type
V. XRF Applications
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 32: Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1988 , 1988 , pp. 239 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1988

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