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Special Techniques Relevant to High-Pressure Studies

Development of the Multi-anvil Assembly 6-6 for DIA and D-DIA type high-pressure apparatuses

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Pages 307-314 | Received 15 Feb 2008, Published online: 06 Oct 2008
 

Abstract

A newly designed anvil assembly, Multi-anvil Assembly 6-6 (MA6-6), was developed. This assembly consists of six small anvils with an anvil guide, and can be compressed by DIA-type and deformation-DIA (D-DIA) apparatuses. The use of this anvil assembly simplifies the process of replacing anvils with those having different truncated edge length and/or hardness. As a consequence, the time needed for anvil replacement is significantly shortened. This is a benefit to experiments at synchrotron facilities because anvil replacement has to be carried out within the limited beamtime. Using a combination of an MA6-6 and DIA-type apparatus, pressure above 12 GPa was generated. A deformation experiment of polycrystalline MgO was performed using an MA6-6 with D-DIA at 4 GPa and room temperature. Two-dimensional X-ray diffraction patterns and X-ray radiographic images were collected from the deforming sample using monochromatic X-rays. Quantitative deformation experiments can be carried out using this experimental setup.

Acknowledgements

We thank Y. Tange and K. Wada for their help in the DIA experiments at GRC, Ehime Univ. and for their constructive comments. We also thank N. Lazarz, C. Pulins, F. Sopron, and M. Jagger for their support during the designing process and the experiment at 13-BM-D at GSECARS, Univ. of Chicago. GeoSoilEnviroCARS is supported by the National Science Foundation - Earth Sciences (EAR-0217473), Department of Energy - Geosciences (DE-FG02-94ER14466) and the State of Illinois. Use of the APS was supported by the US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Energy Research, under Contract No. W-31-109-Eng-38. We are also greatful for the support from the NSF grant EAR-0652574.

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