LAUSR

The use of synchrotron radiation in fundamental and applied materials research is expanding in Europe. Traditionally, synchrotron radiation was used to study the final properties of metal alloys. More recently, due to improvements of the sources, detectors, and experimental techniques themselves, materials processing can be studied in situ on an industrial scale. Various techniques, such as imaging, tomography, and diffraction, are used to study material processing, solidification, thermo-mechanical treatment, shaping, and mechanical behavior under various conditions such as stress and temperature. The use of these techniques in real time during the processing is essential to understand, and furthermore to optimize, the process yielding desired materials properties.