Materials Synthesis and Processing:

• Vacuum arc-melting furnaces
  • Large arc-melting furnace
  • Medium arc-melting furnace
  • Small arc-melting furnace
• High-temperature optic dal floating-zone furnace
  • Examples of directionally solidified eutectics
  • Examples of single crystals
• Modified Bridgman furnace with liquid-metal cooling
• Vacuum induction melt-spinning apparatus.
• Various furnaces for heat treatment in air and controlled environments,
  • Examples of vacuum furnace with heating temperature up to 2000 oC
• Electro-discharge machines

Mechanical Testing

• Three screw-driven and two hydraulic mechanical testing machines
• Six constant-load creep frames.
• Buehler Micromet automatic computer controlled microhardness tester.
• High-load Nanoindenter XP
• Impact gun for performing tensile tests at strain rates to 103 s-1 and temperatures to 1500°C.
• SEM-based nanoindentation system

Materials Characterization

• High-temperature (1650°C) differential scanning calorimeter
• Auger electron microprobe with in-situ UHV fracture and heating stages
• Nikon Epiphot 300 optical metallograph with digital imaging
• Metallographic specimen preparation equipment including grinding and polishing wheels
• Fume hoods for chemical etching and electro-polishing
• Pycnometer for density measurements.
• Walker Scientific Hystersisgraph AMH-40.

Computation

• The BES effort in the Materials Science and Technology Division has a 48-node, dual-processor Opteron system with a 1 TB Raid system and gigabit Ethernet communications, for use in theoretical efforts, including the Alloy Behavior and Design group.
• We have an allocation for computer time at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Many of our simulations are performed on the Cray XT4 machine Franklin, one of the 10 most powerful computers in the world.”
  • 48-node, dual-processor Opteron system