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Overview of High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy (HEDM) for Mesoscale Material Characterization in Three-Dimensions

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Over the past two decades, several non-destructive techniques have been developed at various light sources for characterizing polycrystalline materials microstructure in three-dimensions (3D) and under various in-situ thermo-mechanical conditions. High-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM) is one of the non-destructive techniques that facilitates 3D microstructure measurements at the mesoscale. Mainly, two variations of HEDM techniques are widely used: (1) Near-field (nf) and (2) far-field (ff) which are employed for non-destructive measurements of spatially resolved orientation (\(\sim \)1.5 \(\upmu \)m and 0.01\(^\circ \)), grain resolved orientation, and elastic strain tensor (\(\sim \)10\(^{-3}\)–10\(^{-4}\)) from representative volume elements (RVE) with hundreds of bulk grains in the measured microstructure (mm\(^{3}\)). To date HEDM has been utilized to study variety of material systems under quasi-static conditions, while tracking microstructure evolution. This has revealed new physical mechanisms that were previously not observed through destructive testing and characterization. Furthermore, measured 3D microstructural evolution data obtained from HEDM are valuable for informing, developing, and validating microstructure aware models for accurate material property predictions. A path forward entails utilizing HEDM for initial material characterization for enabling microstructure evolution measurements under dynamic conditions.

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The author gratefully acknowledges the Los Alamos National Laboratory for supporting mesoscale science technology awareness and this work. Experimental support on the measurements of ATF fuel and AM samples from the staff of the APS-1-ID-E beamline is also acknowledged. The author is also thankful to Alexander Scheinker and Turab Lookman for their valuable inputs during the course of writing this chapter.

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Pokharel, R. (2018). Overview of High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy (HEDM) for Mesoscale Material Characterization in Three-Dimensions. In: Lookman, T., Eidenbenz, S., Alexander, F., Barnes, C. (eds) Materials Discovery and Design. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 280. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99465-9_7

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