MADISON - Students at Drew University spent this past semester doing things normal college kids do: reading the great novels, discussing political discourse, and hanging out with friends.
Cornell researchers took a novel approach to explore the way microstructure emerges in a 3D-printed metal alloy: They bombarded it with X-rays while the material was being printed.
Cornell researchers used X-ray diffraction to study how microscale phenomena such as bending and fragmentation emerge in the nickel-based superalloy IN625 as it is being 3D printed.
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