FACILITY

MPLUS has four primary user centers:

Processing - casting, powder metallurgy, deformation processing (including extrusion, forging, rolling), melting, thermomechanical processing, and high-density infrared processing.

Joining - welding, monitoring and control, solidification, brazing, and bonding.

Characterization - corrosion, mechanical properties, fracture mechanics, microstructure, nondestructive examination, computer-controlled dilatometry, and emissivity.

Materials/Process Modeling - mathematical design and analysis, high-performance computing, process modeling, solidification/deformation, microstructure evolution, thermodynamic and kinetic, and materials databases.