| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Characterization of Minerals, Metals and Materials 2025: In-Situ Characterization Techniques
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| Presentation Title |
Novel In-Situ Characterization of Uranium Diboride via Thermal Imaging |
| Author(s) |
Jordan Stone, Mira Khair, Jennifer Stansby, Natasha Engel, Elizabeth Sooby |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Jordan Stone |
| Abstract Scope |
Infrared thermography presents a unique perspective on the dynamics of melting and solidification processes of uranium-bearing compounds by allowing for characterization in an arc furnace environment. Black Body radiation of molten Uranium-bearing samples emits waves on both the Ultraviolet and Infrared spectrums that limit characterization through traditional visual media. Ultraviolet shielding separates IR radiation from blinding UV, providing a spectrum measured nondestructively through IR thermography. Investigations led with IR insight allow for high frame rate imaging of Uranium compound phase change, increasing the definition of changing aspects such as overall sample temperature change during synthesis by mixing elements and the contrast in thermal gradients that drive grain formation in situ as a chilled hearth undercools samples. In this study, advanced monitoring, combined with post-solidification surveying via SEM, gives researchers increased control over grain structure and supervision of volatilizing reactants during synthesizing compounds in the Uranium-Boron system. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Characterization, High-Temperature Materials, Nuclear Materials |