Abstract
The Facility for Materials Engineering (FaME38) was inaugurated on the joint ILL-ESRF site in November 2002 to encourage and to support the use of neutrons and synchrotron X-rays for materials engineering research. FaME38 actively encourages new engineering users and provides the extra support that they may require for all stages of their research. Its technical centre provides a location where engineers and scientists, research students and support staff, can work and meet. Its laboratory is equipped with a co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) and a scan simulator. A fatigue test machine and micro-structural characterisation facilities will be provided in 2004. FaME38 also provides sample environments for use in situ on the beam-lines including a standard mounting system based on the recommendation given in the ISO-VAMAS neutron diffraction standard [Technology Trends Assessment (2001) “Polycrystalline materials–determination of residual stresses by neutron diffraction”, ISO/TTA 3]. Through the use of standard hardware and engineer-friendly software interfaces and off-line sample shape determination, mounting and alignment, user and beam-time efficiency is being dramatically improved.
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