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FaME- A joint support facility for materials engineering at ILL/ESRF
The ILL and the ESRF are respectively the European centres for neutron and
synchrotron radiation research and are located on a shared site in Grenoble,
France. They are each probably the best in the world in their fields and jointly
they are unique. The UK is a principal partner in each through EPSRC. Engineering
research is conducted at Central Facilities, but rarely by engineers themselves
because: The facilities and equipment were not in general designed for engineering
research; visiting engineers generally do not have an appropriate or sufficient
scientific background, and most Local Contacts do not have the specialist engineering
knowledge that is required to provide the extra support that inexperienced engineering
users need. It is proposed to set up a joint ILl/ESRF support Facility for Materials
Engineering, 'FaME', staffed and equipped to encourage and to facilitate engineering
research by engineers based upon developing strain imaging. FaME will provide
a `Technical Centre', a 'Knowledge Centre', and a facility to pre-mount samples
and to simulate scans off-line so as to optimise beam-time utilisation. It will
have materials engineering equipment including static and dynamic thermo-mechanical
loading equipment and software to simplify data collection, processing and analysis.
It will uniquely link neutron and synchrotron X-ray research and will enable
the high potential for engineering research at Central Facilities to be realised
and for it to be exploited academically and industrially. The gains in equipment
utilisation and efficiency are expected to be large.
Institution: University of Salford
Department: Aeronautical & Mechanical Eng (Res Cen)
Starts: Aug 1 2001 Ends: Nov 30 2004 Value: £1,656,961
EPSRC Reference: GR/R48070/01
Scheme: Standard Research
Principal Investigator: Webster, Professor PJ
Other Investigators:
Edwards, Professor L
Swallowe,
Dr GM
Withers, Professor PJ
O'Dowd, Dr NP
FitzPatrick, Dr ME
Daymond, Dr MR
Korsunsky, Dr AM
A UK/ILL Collaboration to establish a strain scanning instrument
EPSRC GR/N01002
In collaboration with the ILL, the community in strain measurement by neutron
diffraction proposes to build, commission and validate the first dedicated strain
measurement instrument at the ILL. The project was chosen by the multi-national
scientific council as one of 5 high priority instrument development projects
.The steering committee of the ILL have agreed that the ILL should devote internal
resources for this joint project. 40% of the construction costs will be met
by the ILL and the recurrent costs (manpower, running costs) will be shared
equally. After the major building work is completed in year1 the team will have
225 days of beam-time over the next three years to optimize instrument performance
and to undertake ground breaking research which cannot be contemplated on the
current aging and underperforming triple axis spectrometer adapted for strain
work. It will be one of the best instruments anywhere in the world.
Institution: University of Manchester
Department: Metallurgy and Materials Science
Starts: Nov 27 2000 Ends: Nov 26 2004 Value: £ 1,084,237
EPSRC Reference: GR/N01002/01
Scheme: Standard Research
Principal Investigator: Withers, Professor PJ
Other Investigators:
Edwards, Professor L
Swallowe,
Dr GM
Webster, Professor PJ
Webster, Professor GA
FitzPatrick, Dr ME
Korsunsky, Dr AM
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