Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
Recent studies indicate that, if the stress/strain field within the irradiated volume in an x-ray stress determination experiment is inhomogeneous, oscillations occur in the interplanar spacing vs. sin2ψ plots. There is, however, little work on the degree of inhomogeneity required to cause a given oscillation, the uniqueness of the stress fields that can cause a given set of oscillations, or the error caused by applying the traditional methods currently in use to oscillatory data.
In this paper, numerical modeling and eiasto-plastic finite element analysis was used to determine the strain fields in the diffracting volume of a polycrystalline sample under load. The elastic strain fields obtained from the analysis were then averaged over the regions that would diffract in an x-ray experiment/and then correlated to x-ray strain data to obtain an idea of the problems described ahove.