A X-ray microscope for stored energy in single grains of cold-rolled steel

A new set-up for X-ray microdiffraction has been developed on the ESRF beamline ID22. This set-up allows microscopic characterization of materials in diffraction mode, the size of the focused beam being only of a few microns. This facilitates the measurement of material quantities as average size of the coherently diffracting volume, local dislocation density, residual stress, local fluctuation of the residual stress, and intragranular misorientation from single grains of a polycrystalline material. The first application on an IF-Ti steel after different thermomechanical treatments (recrystallization, cold-rolling, annealing) is presented.