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MSN-C Science Highlights

The central mission of Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) is to provide state-of-the-art tools to characterize and improve advanced manufacturing processes, allowing manufacturers to directly address questions like: why do parts fail?

MSN-C consists of two X-ray experimental stations, one optimized for high performance metals and one for polymer-based materials, such as carbon-fiber composites. Together, these facilities provide critical infrastructure in support of research in materials and processes already in use, and those needed for future applications.

A near-net-shape additive manufacturing sample measured at SMB

MSN-C matures a technique to map residual strain in complex-shaped, as-manufactured parts

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Residual Stress Model Validation of Cold Hole Expansion in an Aerospace Aluminum Alloy

Tree inference diagram for RNR sequence

Protein family shows how life adapted to oxygen

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Analysis of a three-dimensional slip field in a hexagonal Ti alloy from in-situ high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy data

Image of researchers at the Functional Materials Beamline

In situ SAXS/WAXS mapping of thermoplastic crystallization during 3D printing

Kelly Nygren of CHESS loads a sample into RAMS

In-Hutch Commissioning of Rotation and Axial Motion System IV (RAMS IV) Load Frame

laser annealing setup with detector

Autonomous materials development using in situ laser annealing and scan-probe, grazing incident x-ray microdiffraction.

High-stress steel microstructure

Quantifying Through-Thickness Residual Stresses from Forming of Wrought Steel Armor Plate

clog development sequence

Mechanics of nozzle clogging during direct ink writing of fiber-reinforced composites

SAXS intensity map reveals structure of 3D-printed part

Revealing Filler Morphology in 3D-Printed Thermoset Nanocomposites by Scanning Microbeam X-ray Scattering

Beam through Steel

Validation of Welding Model for Digital Twin of Thick-Plate Joint: Mapping Residual Strains in HSLA Steel using High Energy X-rays

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