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METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 34A, Issue 6, Pages 1349-1355Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11661-003-0246-2
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The Warren-Averbach (WA) analysis and other simplified methods that are commonly used to determine the grain size of nanocrystalline materials are discussed in terms of accuracy and applicabilities. The nanocrystalline materials used in the present study are prepared by cryomilling of Al powders and subsequent consolidation (hot isostatic pressing and extrusion). Transmission electron microscopy observations of the as-extruded nanocrystalline AI reveal a bimodal distribution of grain sizes centered around 50 to 100 nm and 250 to 300 nm. It is shown that the grain size determined by the WA analysis agrees with the lower bound grain size (e.g., 50 to 100 nm) observed experimentally. In the case of the integral method, it is useful to use a parabolic (Cauchy-Gaussian (CG)) relationship to approximate instrumental broadening and separate the intrinsic broadening. Compared to the Cauchy-Cauchy (CC) and Gaussian-Gaussian (GG) approximations, this is shown to give the best results. In addition, the reliability of the Scherrer equation is also discussed.
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