Our residual stress-strain capabilities are focused around the JEEP beamline. This is a multi-purpose experimental facility designed to investigate structural integrity and structural changes in bulk samples using diffraction, imaging and tomography techniques. The high intensity, high energy X-rays penetrate easily through bulk samples allowing ground-breaking largescale engineering and processing experiments to take place, simulating the service conditions experienced by real engineering components while simultaneously monitoring their internal atomic and microscopic structure.
JEEP provides two experimental areas; the first providing high intensity X-ray for diffraction and imaging experiments. The second experimental area houses a flexible space for large-scale or complex engineering experiments to take place, for example strain scanning on an aircraft fan blade or investigation of a chemical process inside a large reaction vessel. The beamline has a number of sample environments available for users including mechanical test rigs and furnaces. Bespoke sample environments can also be accommodated for specific experiments.