Use of the FaME facility

Dear User,

if you wish to come to the ILL for an experiment and to use the new born
FaME facility,
(see below) you can now specify it on the proposal form, by ticking the
box:

Please indicate if you need to use
FaME 38 

By the way, I remind you that the web for proposal
submission has been open today,
that the dead line is 24 September, midnight
and that two cycles (100 days) will be available for
allocation*.

Further information on the FaME facility are available at:
www.ill.fr/FaME38



Giovanna Cicognani


*Please note that only one cycle (50 days) will be available for allocation at
the next dead-line in February 2004

The Facility for Materials Engineering

In 2002 a support Facility for Materials Engineering, FaME38, was inaugurated at the joint ILL-ESRF site. Its aim is to provide the support required to enable European engineers to make the best use of advanced neutron and synchrotron X-ray scientific facilities. FaME38 will develop user-friendly and efficient non-destructive 'strain scanners for engineering components', equivalent to body-scanners now routinely used in medicine. 

The Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) are respectively 
the European centres for research using neutron and synchrotron X-ray beams. They share a joint site in 
Grenoble, France, and provide advanced research facilities for European universities, research institutes 
and industries.

FaME38 is funded to provide:
a Technical Centre equipped with a co-ordinate measuring machine (CMM) to determine complex and distorted component shapes,
facilities to simulate and optimise strain scans off-line before starting measurements on-line,
a Materials Laboratory with micro-structural characterisation and static-dynamic thermo-mechanical loading equipment,
a Knowledge and Training Centre to provide technical and scientific know-how. 

Academic users are helped to plan experiments, and are assisted with data collection, processing and analysis. Industrial users can be provided with a full measurement and data analysis service as required. The facilities have so far been used mostly in connection with aerospace, fast transport, energy and materials industry research and to determine residual stress fields in critical components, often to validate stress calculation codes.

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       _/   _/         _/             Dr. Giovanna Cicognani
      _/   _/         _/              Institut Laue-Langevin
     _/   _/         _/               Scientific Coordinator
    _/   _/         _/                B.P.156, 38042 Grenoble
   _/   _/_/_/_/   _/_/_/_/           Cedex 9, France
 
 Tel: (33) 4.76.20.71.79              Sec : (33) 4.76.20.70.82
 Fax: (33) 4.76.48.39.06              email: cico@ill.fr
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