Characterization of engineering material microstructures and their load induced changes. Understanding the microstructure – property relationship of materials and components focusing on iron base alloys and steels.
Main areas of interest regarding methods development are X-ray, synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction, scattering and tomography for engineering material and component characterization. The focus currently is on in-situ investigations of internal stress and damage evolution under combined thermal and mechanical loading.
We apply X-ray, synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction, scattering and tomography to materials and components in order to understand the relation between microstructure and properties and microstructure changes and damage under complex loading conditions. These methods allow us to cover the whole length scale between interatomic distances to industrial components.
Current projects topics feature e.g. the relation between microstructure and properties of dissimilar welds, microstructure and damage evolution during thermo-mechanical loading and microstructure evolution in wear processes.
