Using the Portable XRF To Identify/Verify Field Material Properties

Liu, Zhen; Milla, Jose; Saunders, William

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Using the Portable XRF To Identify/Verify Field Material Properties

2024-02-01
By Liu, Zhen ; Milla, Jose ; Saunders, William

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English

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Creators:

Liu, Zhen ; Milla, Jose ; Saunders, William
Corporate Creators:

Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Corporate Contributors:

Louisiana. Department of Transportation and Development ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

Louisiana;United States
Edition:

Draft Report 10/19 – 06/23
Corporate Publisher:

Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Abstract:

In order to investigate the feasibility of rapid identification of chemical compounds or detection of certain additives or contaminants in commonly used construction materials with portable X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), stainless steel, anchor bolt, steel nut, steel washer, portland cement (type I, II, and III), class F fly ash, and aggregates were tested with the Olympus Vanta C series handheld XRF in this study. The same materials were also tested either with a spark spectrometer (for metal samples) or a benchtop XRF device (for non-metal samples) in DOTD materials laboratory. Through a comparison between the results from portable XRF and DOTD materials lab for metal samples, it shows the Olympus Vanta C series handheld XRF was able to detect manganese, nickel, chromium, and molybdenum, but it was not able to detect phosphorus, sulfur, and silicon that have a content value less than 1% in the metal samples. There is a linear relationship between the portable XRF testing results and DOTD materials laboratory testing results for the testing results of element copper, and manganese.
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PDF
Funding:

FHWA/LA.23/691;LTRC Project Number: 20-2C;SIO Number: DOTLT1000332
Download URL:

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/73767/dot_73767_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 1.47 MB]
Collection(s):

US Transportation Collection
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Using the Portable XRF To Identify/Verify Field Material Properties [Technical Summary]

Portable spectroscopy technologies such as X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) are proposed for a rapid identification of chemical compounds or detection of cert ...

Liu, Zhen ;

Cooper, Samuel B.
Using the Portable XRF to Identify/Verify Field Material Properties [Research Project Capsule]

The objective of this study is to develop a methodology to apply a portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transfor ...

Milla, Jose

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Rupnow, Tyson

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English

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