%0 Journal Article %T ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (EDXRF) ANALYSIS OF STEELS %A LUCICA GRIGORA TOMA %A RODICA MARIANA ION %A RADU CLAUDIU FIERASCU %A NELU ION %J Journal of Science and Arts %D 2010 %I Bibliotheca Publishing House %X A powerful, simple and fast technique for non-destructive multi-element analysis of materials is energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) technique. This method is based on radioisotope excited energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry and does not require any type-standards. For these reasons, the EDXRF method was chosen in this paper to analyse the different types of stainless steel (SS) samples. After non-destructive multi-element analysis of samples revealed that Si (0.1¨C0.52), S (0.01-0.12), K (0.25-0.86), Cu (0.19-0.24), Ca (0.01-0.03) etc are present as minor components while Cr (15.1-17.5), Mn (0.56-1.4), Fe (69.8-83.7), Ni (0.03-10.4) are present as major components. %K EDXRF technique %K non-destructive and standardless analysis of stainless steel samples. %U http://www.icstm.ro/DOCS/josa/josa_2010_2/c.08_energy_dispersive_x-ray_fluorescence_%28edxrf%29_analysis_of_steels.pdf