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Research
Interests
Dr. Chen's research
interests
include advanced
materials
(bio-
and
nano-materials,
composites, etc.) and other critical engineering
materials, and their
mechanical properties, fatigue,
fracture, deformation,
physical
metallurgy, phase
transformation, microstructural
characterization, materials processing, welding,
brazing, stress
corrosion
cracking, corrosion fatigue, failure analysis and life
prediction.
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Research
Equipment
- Instron
8801
fatigue
testing
system with three load cells of different
capacities and various accessories.
- JEOL
6380LV
scanning
electron
microscope (SEM), equipped with Oxford energy
dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and electron
backscatter
diffraction (EBSD), as well as three-dimensional
(3D)
surface imaging and analysis capacity, where the
EBSD and EDS can also
be used either independently or simultaneously.
- PANalytical
X-ray
diffractometer
(XRD),
with functions of phase identification,
phase quantification, crystallographic texture
determination, residual
stress measurement, microdiffraction, in conjunction
with a vacuum and
heating system for high-temperature measurements.
- Rotating bending fatigue
machine.
- Nikon
optical
microscope.
- Nikon
macroscopic
imaging
system.
- Vernier
traveling/measuring
microscope.
- Clemex
quantitative
image
analysis.
- Polaron
SC7620
sputter
coating
system.
- Digital
Rockwell
hardness
tester.
- Buehler
microhardness
tester
(Vickers
and Knoop).
- United
tensile
testing
machine.
- Admet
tensile
testing
machine.
- Charpy
impact
tester.
- Ultrasonic
spot
welding
system.
- High-temperature
vacuum
furnace.
- Princeton
Applied
Research
potentiostat/galvanostat.
- Inert
gas
atmosphere
furnace,
and other heat treatment furnaces.
- Various
metallographic
preparation
facilities,
including automatic polisher and
electropolishing set-up.
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