Energy-resolved imaging and tomography with compact neutron systems—application to novel construction materials for thermal-energy storage
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Herein, we have used so-called Compact Accelerator-driven Neutron Systems (CANS) to explore the properties and performance of composite cement foams for thermal-energy storage. To this end, energy-resolved neutron imaging and tomography were implemented on RIKEN RANS-I, and these data were complemented by thermal conductivity measurements. The ability to pulse this CANS down to tens of microseconds enables data collection across the available neutron energy spectrum for different foam formulations. With relatively modest L/D ratios of ∼35, it is possible to attain a spatial resolution in the millimeter range, and useful images can be collected in as little time as 3 min. Volume reconstruction was performed via angular scans from 0° to 180° in 10° steps, corresponding to a total of 19 images collected over a period of less than an hour. Key to the above has been the deployment of recently developed algorithms and techniques for the analysis of sparse data. On the basis of these results, the existing capabilities of RIKEN RANS-I and similar CANS provide us with new, nonintrusive, and quantitative measures of key performance parameters, including the degree of porosity over relevant length scales typical in these construction materials. In combination with thermal-conductivity data, these results also enable an assessment of insulating performance, with a view to its further optimization.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".