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STUDIES ON THE ATTENUATION
COEFFICIENTS HILAL, M.A. Hot. Labs. Centre, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt.
Key words: Mass
attenuation coefficients, Sand, Soil, Concrete,
دراسات لحساب قيم معامل التوهين لعينات من جمهورية مصر العربية
مصطفى عبدالحميد عبدالحليم هلال خلاصـــة ABSTRACTThe linear and mass attenuation coefficients for different types of soil, sand and some building material samples at Inshas site in Egypt were investigated. The measurements were performed using gamma rays spectrometer consists of hyper pure germanium (HPGe) detector. The attenuation coefficients values were determined at the g-rays energies 81.0, 276.4, 302.8, 356.0 and 383.9 KeV of 133Ba, 661.7 KeV of 137Cs and 1173.4 and 1332.5 KeV of 60Co. The tested samples were dried, sieved to different particle sizes. The effect of cement to sand ratio on the attenuation coefficient values was studied. The results obtained showed that there was no specific relation between the mass attenuation coefficients and samples densities, but there was exponential decay relation between the mass attenuation coefficients and the gamma rays energy. There were variations of the values of the mass attenuation coefficients with the g-rays energy. The obtained values for mass attenuation coefficients were compared with other values in different countries. These values agreed with some values and differed with others, because there are differences in the elemental components of each sample.
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