Mechanical testing setup for in situ XRD

• Measurement of stress-strain curves upon uniaxial tension or compression
• In situ XRD studies of structure and phase transformations upon mechanical load and heating

Technical details

• Samples: metallic ribbons or bone-shaped bulk samples (30 mm length)
• Sample environment: vacuum of ~10^-4 mbar
• Sample heating: Joule-heating
• Temperature measurement by infrared pyrometer
• Designed for synchrotron XRD measurements at PETRA III, DESY Hamburg