The High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML) is a DOE User Facility designed to help solve materials problems that limit the efficiency and reliability of automotive systems, including propulsion and chasis systems. HTML includes six user centers available to researchers in industry, universities, and federal laboratories.
The program has two major objectives:
- Provide researchers from U.S. industries and academia with access to a skilled staff and to sophisticated, often one-of-a-kind instruments for materials characterization; and
- Assist in educating and training materials researchers.
User Support
Instruments available at the six user centers have extensive capabilities for characterizing the microstructure, microchemistry, and physical and mechanical properties of materials over a wide range of temperatures.
Professional Staff
HTML staff provide assistance to users and have the following responsibilities:
- Participate in the planning, performance, and interpretation of research, including copreparation of technical papers and presentations from nonproprietary research.
- Assist users in the safe and efficient operation of user center research equipment.
- Maintain instruments to maximize their availability for research.
- Organize, maintain support for, and conduct individual research.
Facility Access
Before research begins, two documents
must be in place:
- Standard user agreement between the user organization and UT-Battelle, LLC
- Approved research proposal
Proposals
Both nonproprietary and proprietary research is conducted within the user program.
All prospective users should consult with the appropriate center's staff concerning specific plans and time schedules for inclusion in proposals.
Classified research is not usually conducted within the HTML User Program. |
