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Data for HRXRD study of the Theoretical densities of novel reactive sintered boride candidate neutron shielding materials
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Marshall, Jessica M., Walker, David and Thomas, Pam A. (2020) Data for HRXRD study of the Theoretical densities of novel reactive sintered boride candidate neutron shielding materials. [Dataset]
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Microsoft Excel (Processed XRD data from first iteration of Reactive Sintered Borides)
JNM_Novel_RSBs.xlsx - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0. Download (358Kb) |
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Microsoft Excel (Raw data from first RSB sample iteration 2016-2017)
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Microsoft Excel (XRD scan compilation Yobs and Ycalc from best fit models)
cWC-RSB-XRD_raw data.xlsx - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0. Download (4Mb) |
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Archive (ZIP) (Individual XRD files (Yobs, Ycalc from best models and difference (Ycalc-Yobs))
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Microsoft Word (README.txt for Excel and XRD data files)
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Microsoft Word (Appendix Material to JNM paper)
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Abstract
Reactive Sintered Borides (RSBs) are novel borocarbide materials derived from FeCr-based cemented tungsten (FeCr-cWCs) show considerable promise as compact radiation armour for proposed spherical tokamak. Six candidate compositions (four RSBs, two cWCs) were evaluated by high-resolution X-ray diffraction (XRD), inductively coupled plasma (ICP), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to determine the atomic composition, phase presence, and theoretical density. RSB compositions were evaluated with initial boron contents equivalent to 25 at%<x < 40 at%. Stable RSB bodies formed from sintering for compositions where B at%>30 at%. All RSB compositions showed delamination and carbon enrichment in the bulk relative to the surface, consistent with non-optimal binder removal and insufficient sintering time. Phase abundance within RSBs derived from powder XRD was dominated by iron tungsten borides (FeWB/FeW2B2), tungsten borides (W2B5/WB) and iron borides. The most optimal RSB composition (B5T522W) with respect to physical properties and highest ρ/ρtheo had ρtheo = 12.59 ± 0.01 g cm−3 for ρ/ρtheo = 99.3% and had the weigh-in and post-sintered W: B: Fe abundance closest to 1: 1: 1. This work indicates that despite their novelty, RSB materials can be optimized and in principle be processed using existing cWC processing routes.
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Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
Type of Data: | Experimental data | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Crystallography, Ceramic metals, Shielding (Radiation), Nuclear fusion, Borides , Tungsten , Carbides, Powder metallurgy, Refractory materials | ||||||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Physics | ||||||||
Official Date: | 4 February 2020 | ||||||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Media of Output (format): | .xlsx .docx .csv | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | University of Warwick | ||||||||
Description: | Notes on organisation for the dataset |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 March 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 March 2020 | ||||||||
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