1. High temperature processing: 

1. Thermal Technologies vacuum hot press that can achieve temperatures of 1200°C and has a 3" diameter working envelope.

2. Furnace with controlled oxygen partial pressure between 10-24 atm and 1 atm from 550°C to 1500°C. 4

3. Box furnaces 4- 36L (1100°C max) for heat-treating alloys

4. Bench-top muffle furnaces 5.3L (1200°C max)

5. Centorr Vacuum Industries Model 5BJ, series 5 bell jar arc melting furnace (for wrought alloy development purposes) with 1/4" diameter thoriated tungsten stinger tip

2. Mechanical Test: 

1. Instron 5980 tensile testing

2. Impact test machine

3. Rockwell hardness tester

4. Leco M-400A microhardness tester

5. NanoTest Vantage nanoindenter with low (10μN-500mN) and high (300mN-20N) load head and high temperature (<750°C) testing capability

6. Instron 8501 and 8872 fatigue testers.

3. Characterization:

1. Optical microscopy: Leica optical microscopes

2. X-ray diffraction: 4-circle x-ray diffractometer equipped with a Li-drifted Si array detector and a standard scintillation detector (Bruker D8 with LynxEye and standard detectors). In situ x-ray measurements are possible between -180°C and 1600°C.

3. Sample preparation: Our group has access to general metallography facility (precision cutting saw, grinding and polishing facility, fume hood, mounting equipment, Gatan dimple grinder, Gatan PIPS II ion polisher, and Tenu-Pol 3 electropolisher). Our group has access to TEM specimen preparation equipment through the EMF at OSU. This includes a Buehler Isomet low-speed saw, a TwinPrep 3 polishing machine, a Fischione twin jet electropolisher model 110, optical microscopes, a vacuum evaporator (carbon coater), as well as two FEI dual beam SEM/FIBs.