Abstract
Neutron radiography (NR) technique has been adopted to study the internal structure and quality of the KAB bricks made by Hoffman kiln method. Thermal neutron radiography facility installed at the tangential beam port of 3 MW TRIGA Mark-II Research Reactor, AERE, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh is used in the present study. Measurements were made to determine the internal structure and quality of the automated machine made environmentally friendly brick sample. In this case, optical density/gray values of the neutron radiographic images of the sample have been measured. From these measurements, the porosity, water penetrating height, water penetrating behavior, initial rapid absorption of water (IRA), elemental distribution/homogeneity and incremental water intrusion area in the sample have been found. From the observation of different properties, it is seen that, homogeneity of the Hoffman kiln brick KAB is not perfectly homogeneous and contains small internal porosity; the incremental water intrusion area is very poor, and the water penetrating height through the two edges is higher than the middle part; the initial rapid absorption (IRA) rate is also very poor and the water penetrating behavior of the samples is different as like as stair, capillary, wave and zigzag shape. From these points of view, it is concluded that the quality of the environmentally friendly brick KAB is better. The results obtained and conclusion made in this study can only be compared to the properties of bricks produced under similar conditions with similar raw materials.
Highlights
Neutron Radiography (NR) is a technique of making a picture of the internal details of an object by the selective absorption of a neutron beam by the object
Neutron radiograph gives the information of the internal structure of an object; it can detect light elements, which have large neutron absorption cross-sections like hydrogen and boron; it is completely complementary to other non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques, like X-ray or gamma-ray radiography
The specific relationship between the shades of gray or density and exposure depends on the characteristics of the film emulsion and the processing conditions
Summary
Neutron Radiography (NR) is a technique of making a picture of the internal details of an object by the selective absorption of a neutron beam by the object. The radiography technique is nothing but a simple process of exposing some objects to an X-ray, gamma-ray, neutron beam and some other types of radiation and attenuated outgoing beam from the object is passing through a special type of photographic film to form images of the objects on the radiographic film or detector. It is called a non-destructive testing (NDT) [1] and evaluation technique of testing non-nuclear and nuclear materials and industrial products. Any in-homogeneity in the object on an internal defect
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