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Mapping the Residual Stress Distribution in Polycrystalline Quartz Tiger's Eye Using Raman Spectroscopy
Genevieve C Kidman1,2, Ashkan Salamat1, Brian M Patterson2
1Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Stress distribution maps in polycrystalline materials are needed to reveal stress pathways caused by short-and long-range interactions of crystallites. Stress induced changes to wavenumbers in Raman spectroscopy is a well-known phenomenon that occurs when a crystalline material undergoes elastic strain. Using spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy, we have developed a technique to experimentally measure grain-scale residual stresses across a sample of polycrystal quartz Tiger's Eye. The results of this technique are validated using multiple criteria, including evaluation of the residual stress map itself and the accuracy of the measurements taken. The residual map of Tiger's Eye shows striking similarity to observed characteristics of other polycrystalline residual stress distributions, revealing heterogenous areas of high and low magnitude stresses. The stress magnitudes are consistent with residual stress magnitudes previously measured from polycrystalline quartz. Characterization of Tiger's Eye quartz also revealed the geometric nature of the iron oxide inclusions, not previously observed in Tiger's Eye quartz. With this technique, we present a residual stress map of Tiger's Eye quartz that shows with accuracy a heterogeneous stress state with inter- and intra-granular detail.
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