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EPSRC Reference: GR/L49345/01
Title: SYNCHROTRON STRAIN SCANNING - AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS
Principal Investigator: Webster, Professor PJ
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Department: Advanced Materials & Surfaces (Res Cen)
Organisation: University of Salford
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 May 1997 Ends: 30 April 2000 Value (£): 156,443
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials Characterisation
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Aerospace, Defence and Marine
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The proposal is to support a project to develop at the SRS, Daresbury, and at the ESRF, Grenoble, techniques for non-destructive synchrotron strain scanning, and to make measurements on samples of generic interest to the aerospace industry. X-ray from conventional laboratory sources are commonly used to measure residual strains but are restricted, because of strong absorption, to surface measurements. Neutrons are used routinely for internal measurements but their use near surface is limited by instrumental aberrations and spatial resolution. In this project intense, high-energy, monochromatic synchrotron X-radiation will be used in transmission and reflection, using adapted neutron techniques, to determine with high spatial resolution residual stress fields within aerospace samples and through near-surface regions where stress fields can be both critical and steep.
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