University of Alabama Capabilities
Additive friction stir deposition (AFSD)
•Components from Al, Mg, Ti, Steel, and HEA materials.
•In Situ Temperature measurements
•Large build envelope
Minimal distortion of substrate
•In Situ Temperature measurements
•Large build envelope
Minimal distortion of substrate
Aconity MIDI Laser Powder Bed Fusion AM System
Apreo SEM
- XFEG, 500 eV-30 keV
- In lens imaging for highest resolution
- To be a in situ micro-mechanical SEM
Analytical Electrochemistry
Atomization Facility
- Inert gas atomization:
- Aluminum, lead, nickel, cobalt, iron, copper, gold, silver, palladium, zinc.
- 1700 C maximum furnace temperature
- Able to produce particle sizes down to 10um
- Small batch size:5 Kg of steel/ 2Kg of Al for testing new powder compositions and size distributions.
Bio-Logic M470 scanning electrochemical workstation
Corrosion Modelling
Friction Stir Welding and Processing
- Weld and surface modify aluminum, steel, titanium, HEAs.
- Highly instrumented
- Large, water-cooled bed.
Gleeble 3500
- Provide rapid heating and cooling of conductive materials.
- Perform coupled thermomechanical loading
- Heat samples up to 3,000˚COperate in a variety of atmospheres
Helios HR-FIB
- XFEG, 500 eV-30 keV
- Ga ion source
- High precision, low damage microscope for site specific sample preparation
High Pressure Cold Spray (HPCS)/ Laser-Assisted Cold Spray (LACS) Systems
- Fixed CS gun and the laser to a frame in the cabinet
- New 6-axis Kuka robot inside the cabinet
- Cold spray possible for aluminum, ferrous, nickel, titanium, copper, and refractory alloys.
- Laser assisted cold spray allows in situ heat treatment of deposited material before/during/after spray.
Hydra CX Plasma FIB
- XFEG, 2 eV-30 keV
- 4 ion (Xe, O, Ar, N) ion source
- Highest milling currents for serial sectioning
- Coupled EDS/EBSD for full quantative microstructure analysis
- Multi-chem provides mix GIS gas mixing
Hydrogen permeation/ diffusivity
LEAP 6000XR
- 253 nm laser for improved ceramic field evaporation yield
- Combined laser/voltage pulse for improved mass resolution
- Reflectron lens for added TOF mass resolving power
Mitsubishi EDM
MTS Servohydraulic Load Frames
- Load ranges of 5 kip 264 kip employing Instron Electro-Mechanical and MTS Servo-Hydraulic load frames
Rotating Disc Electrode
Simulated Atmospheric Corrosion
Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bars (SHPB)
Spectra 300 (S)TEM
- XFEG, 300 keV
- Aberration-corrected
- 4DSTEM
- SuperX EDS
- EELS
- Lorentz microscopy
- Tomography
- “Highest resolution TEM in the world”
Talos 200i (S)TEM
- XFEG, 200 keV
- 4DSTEM
- SuperX EDS
- 'Work horse’ microscope for analytical and defect analysis