Facilities: State-of-the-Art
A broad technical support to characterize weldments such as fracture mechanics, analytical electron microscopy, nondestructive examination, mechanical properties, and unique neutron scattering facilities to measure residual stresses exists.
- A wide range of joining processes including arc, friction stir welding, arc-laser hybrid process, electroslag and electrogas welding and high energy beam processes such as electron beam, and laser welding and brazing.
- Weldability testing of materials
- Brazing facilities to join metals and ceramics, including vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnaces
- Computational thermo dynamic and kinetic models
- Neural net modeling for microstructure and properties
- Facilities to characterize braze alloy wetting characteristics
- A vision system to view weld pool dynamics
- Materials characterization facilities including optical microscopy, advanced analytical electron microscopy, surface characterization facilities, x-ray and neutron scattering facilities, computed tomography, ultrasonic microscopy and eddy-currents
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