COMPOSITION AND MICROSTRUCTRUE OF TERNARY COPPER ALLOYS TO IMPROVE A NON-DESTRUCTIVE CALIBRATION METHOD FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS

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Antique objects made of Cu-Sn or Cu-Zn alloys have been widely characterised by neutron diffraction. However, the employment of binary alloys gave way to the use of more common ternary (Cu-Sn-Zn) alloys around the beginning of Roman Empire. Characterisation methods of ternary alloys with neutron methods are rather sporadic. Aim of the present research is to study Cu-Sn-Zn alloys of known chemical composition, both as-cast and annealed, in order to a) provide more accurate descriptions of ¿Sn equivalent¿ Vegard-type relationships and diffraction data for ternary copper alloys than presently available; b) contribute to a database for archaeometallurgical research with neutrons. The project is a continuation of RB960027 experiment on INES (see report). We now propose to finish the as-cast collection (6+9 measurements) and to measure again the remaining 37 tests that we have now annealed.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089007
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089007
Provenance
Creator Dr Winfried Kockelmann; Dr Elisabetta Gliozzo
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-05-18T08:40:36Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-05-31T14:21:13Z