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A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | F E B R U A R Y / M A R C H 2 0 2 0 1 3 chemical composition, amounts of minor elements, and crystal grain size. Ferritic heat-resistant steels, commonly used in thermal power plants, were found to have very long-term, inherent creep strength. But this creep strength depends on the amount of minor sol- utes present in the steel. Fatigue limits, on the other hand, are affected by ametal’s tensile strength and hardness. The scientists found that some metals can last an incredibly long time without forming cracks as long as they are constantly exposed to room temperature. The same metals, how- ever, eventually form cracks if exposed to the same stress but at high tempera- ture. The institution now plans to share this data with academia in addition to industry. www.nims.go.jp/eng. SOFTWARE ENHANCES NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tenn., have devel- oped a new super-resolution soft- ware called SRINS that makes it easier for scientists to better understand a material’s dynamic properties using neutron spectroscopy. By combing neutron data from multiple detectors through a special algorithm, the software uses multiple measure- ments of the same property from different perspectives to provide researchers with results that have up to five times finer resolution than those produced through tradi- tional spectroscopy data reduction techniques. The lab team worked alongside colleagues at ORNL’s Computational and Applied Mathematics Group to cre- ate an algorithm that greatly improves the resolution of data produced with neutron spectroscopy. Then, using the programming language Python, they codified their algorithm into software that scientists around the world can install on their neutron spectroscopy instruments. ornl.gov. New software improves neutron spectroscopy data resolution. Courtesy of ORNL.