Equipment
We operate and maintain several pieces of equipment that are used for in situ experiments on beamlines or that can be used for off-line measurements complementing X-ray or neutron experiments.
Equipment currently available:
Deben CT500 micro-tensile test machine for tomography
- Applied force: Up to 100 N, 1% accuracy
- Movement: up to 10 mm stroke, 300 nm accuracy
- Sample size: up to 25 mm long, 6 mm diameter
Deben CT5000 micro-tensile test machine for tomography
- Applied force: Up to 5 kN, 1% accuracy, 500 N load cell also available
- Movement: up to 10 mm stroke, 300 nm accuracy
- Sample size: up to 35 mm long, 20 mm diameter
- Temperature control: -20 – 160 °C, monitoring to 0.1 °C
- Coming upgrade: confinement for toxic materials
Electro-thermo-mechanical tester (ETMT)
- 3 kN universal test machine
- Fast heating of samples through direct electrical resistance heating
- Heating rate up to 200 °C/s.
- Cooling rate up to 100 °C/s.
- Optional inert gas environment
Energetic materials confinement and interlock system
- For fast (10 kHz) radiography of energetic materials undergoing deflagration to detonation transition (DDT)
- Maximum 350 mg of material
Impactor and interlock system
- For fast imaging and radiography of materials under 30-80 m/s impact
- Range of impactors available on request
Radiochemistry containment cell
- Transuranic Sample Holder for XAS (TSH-XAS)
- Uses standard Nalgene cryovial for sample
- Triple-walled containment cell
- Design and testing documents available (please email for information)
- Made by Fairbrother and Grimshaw Engineering Ltd
- Contact Sam Shaw for advice, systems of work and loan of cells