The Residual Stress User Center (RSUC) is part of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML), which is a DOE User Facility designed to help solve high-temperature materials problems that limit the efficiency and reliability of advanced energy-conversion systems.

Residual stresses affect such important design properties in materials as fatigue life, fracture strength, onset of yield, and microcracking. X-ray and neutron diffraction methods are available in the RSUC to measure macro- and micro-residual stresses in polycrystalline and single-crystal materials. The state-of-the-art X-ray, sychrotron, and neutron diffraction facilities at RSUC can be used to characterize both surface stresses and through-thickness stresses in small specimens (thin films) as well as in large industrial components.

Residual Stress User Center Fact Sheet (pdf)

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