Dear Eyal and Eitan,
At the last NNSA/IAEC planning meeting last summer, there was discussion of collaborations on AM Lattice Structures. We have some experiments scheduled at Diamond Light Source the first week of April. I would like to invite you (or someone you delegate) to join us at Diamond to participate in these experiments. I don’t know Gennadi’s status at the moment, but he would certainly be a useful addition to the team. I have attached the proposal that was awarded beamtime for your information. The work we do does not have to stick to that to the letter, but it should be close.
The lattice structures we study will be Ti64 and we are planning on making both stretch dominated and bend dominated geometries, but we will see if we can get both those samples made. If you had some samples of interest we could discuss this as well. We would have to start paperwork very soon, but you would also be welcome to come to Los Alamos immediately before the experiments for pre-experiment testing of the samples, again assuming the samples are prepped far enough in advance.
The plan is for LLNL (Ibo Matthews) to be part of these experiments as well. They will provide a couple distinct samples. I know there was talk of IAEC collaborating with them as well, but I don’t know the status of that.
Please let me know if you are interested.
Best Regards,
Don Brown
Scientist 5 and Scattering Team Leader
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