Additive manufacturing of Ti-Ni bimetallic structures.

Bimetallic structures of nickel (Ni) and commercially pure titanium (CP Ti) were manufactured in three different configurations via directed energy deposition (DED)-based metal additive manufacturing (AM). To understand whether the bulk properties of these three composites are dominated by phase formation at the interface, their directional dependence on mechanical properties was tested. X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern confirmed the intermetallic NiTi phase formation at the interface.

Phase Identification of Dual-Phase (DP980) Steels by Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Nanoindentation Techniques.

Phase identification of multi-phase materials provides essential information relating the material to its mechanical properties. In this study we selected DP980, a type of dual-phase steel, to investigate the content of martensite and ferrite grains. A combination of advanced techniques was used to provide detailed and precise information of the microstructure.

3D image reconstruction of fiber systems using electron tomography.

Over the past several years, electron microscopists and materials researchers have shown increased interest in electron tomography (reconstruction of three-dimensional information from a tilt series of bright field images obtained in a transmission electron microscope (TEM)). In this research, electron tomography has been used to reconstruct a three-dimensional image for fiber structures from secondary electron images in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The implementation of this technique is used to examine the structure of fiber system before and after deformation.

A review of strain analysis using electron backscatter diffraction.

Since the automation of the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technique, EBSD systems have become commonplace in microscopy facilities within materials science and geology research laboratories around the world. The acceptance of the technique is primarily due to the capability of EBSD to aid the research scientist in understanding the crystallographic aspects of microstructure. There has been considerable interest in using EBSD to quantify strain at the submicron scale.