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Facilities

We have access to a growing number of resources in our lab and in facilities across the UK and beyond to provide you with the data and information required for your application.
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Microscopy

  • Optical microscopy
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
    • Electron BackScatter Diffraction (EBSD)
    • Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS)
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
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Mechanical Testing

  • 250kN electro-mechanical testing machine
    • High temperature chamber
  • 100kN hydraulic tension-compression-torsion testing machine
    • Environmental chamber
  • 5kN micro-mechanical testing machine
  • Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
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Computational Facilities

We have access to an extensive range of computational facilities, including:
  • Group Workstation: 28 cores, 256GB RAM, 4GB GPU
  • School of Engineering cluster: 240 cores, 3GB RAM per core
  • ARCHIE-WeSt: 3048 cores, 8 large memory nodes with 512GB RAM, 8 GPU servers
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International Facilities

We regularly access international synchrotron facilities, such as the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), to conduct advanced in situ X-ray diffraction-based characterisation techniques, including:
  • Lattice strain measurements
  • 3D X-ray diffraction microscopy (3D-XRDM)
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