30–31 Jul 2025
Building 8600
US/Eastern timezone

Agenda

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Time

Topic

Place

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Stop by at Chestnut Ridge Visitor Center (Building 8600) or ORNL Visitor Center (Building 5200) for badging

SNS (8600) or ORNL Visitor Center (5200)

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Check-in

Room C156, SNS (8600)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Vulcan-X optics and instrumentation

9:30 - 10:30 AM

Live data and post-experiment data process

10:30 - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Texture: pole figure and inverse pole figure via single peak fit (SPF)

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Working lunch: practice SPF

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Case study: lattice evolution under in situ process

3:00 - 3:15 PM

Group photo

3:15 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 4:15 PM

Residual stress determination

4:15 - 5:00 PM

Tour to Vulcan-X

Vulcan, SNS

5:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner: Instrument and science posters viewing, and discussion of materials engineering neutron diffraction

Room C156, SNS (8600)

 

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Time

Topic

Place

9:00 - 9:30 AM

New sample environment capabilities at Vulcan-X

Room C156, SNS (8600)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

9:30 - 10:30 AM

Rietveld refinement (RR) for engineering diffraction

10:30 - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 - 12:00 PM

Case study: phase transition induced plasticity

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Working lunch: practice RR

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Refinement skill: non-cubic structure

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Refinement skill: lattice site occupancy

3:00 - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 - 3:45 PM

Challenge case: resolving lattice misfit

3:45 - 5:00 PM

User data reduction and analysis, and self-practice