Applications & case studies
Over the past year, numerous users from across the University of Sheffield, externally, and from industry have had access to our XRM facilities; here we have compiled a range of applications and case studies which show off how useful XRM is for a complete range of sample types at various scales and resolutions.
While we are jointly shared with the Department of Material Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and so naturally the majority of our applications are focussed on these, we are open to a complete spectrum of scientific disciplines across engineering, biology, geology, geography, physics, archaeology, etc.
Please get in touch if you would like to find out more, or use our equipment.
Insulating materials
Sample owner: Dan Allwood
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel Size: 1.4 μm
Field of View: 1.42 mm cubed
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Soldered joint
Sample owner: Dan Luo & Russell Goodall
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 2.83 μm
Field of view: 2.8 mm cubed; sample 1 mm diameter
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Fibre reinforced polymer
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 2 μm
Field of view:2 mm cubed
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Carboniferous Millstone Grit from Stanage Edge, Peak District
Sample owner & visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 6.28 μm
Field of View: 6.5 x 6.5 mm
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Stick of rock from Whitby
Sample owner & visualisation by: Ria Mitchell; Ria was runner up in the RMS imaging competition 2021 with this entry
Connectivity modelling in 3D printed metal foam
Sample owner: Allan Liu
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 25.7 μm
Field of view: 26 x 26 mm
Dept: Mechanical Engineering, TUoS
Machining of composites - cracking induced damage, crack thickness measurements
Sample owner: Sam Ashworth
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 14.1 μm
Field of view: 15 mm cubed
Dept: Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), TUoS
Mouse tibia
Sample owner: Enrico Dall'Ara and Bryant Roberts
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 3.5 μm; 4 scans vertically stitched together
Field of view: 2.5 mm cubed
Dept: Bone Biomechanics group, Skeletal laboratory, MULTISIM project, TUoS
Additive Manufactured 3D printed polymers - porosity analysis
Sample owner: Candice Majewski
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 8.12 μm
Field of view: 8.7 mm cubed
Dept: Mechanical Engineering, TUoS
Battery electrode particles
Sample owner: Laura Wheatcroft
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 0.38 μm
Field of view: 400 μm cubed
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Chondrule from Woodmancote Meteorite - fall in the UK, February 2021
Sample owner: Collaboration with the British Astronomical Association, Derek Robson
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 1.57 μm
Field of view: 1.7 mm cubed
Dept: Across Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Science, TUoS
Carbon fibre composites - 2D section
Sample owner: Busra Karas
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 1.5 μm
Field of view: 1.5 x 1.5 mm
Dept: Mechanical Engineering, TUoS
Li ion pouch battery cell (small section)
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 3.89 μm
Field of view: 3.9 mm cubed
Dept: Mechanical Engineering, TUoS
Machined carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRPs)
Visualisation by: Marius Monoranu
Voxel size: 2.5 μm
Field of view: 2.5 mm cubed
Depts: Mechanical Eng., Materials Science and Eng., AMRC - TUoS
Publication here
Cement
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 5 μm
Field of view: 5 mm cubed
Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Treated molar
Sample owner: Adrian Jowett
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 30 μm
Field of view: 30 mm cubed
School of Clinical Dentistry, TUoS
Zebra Fish Skull
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 7 μm
Field of view: 7 mm cubed
Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease, TUoS
AAA Battery
Sample provided by: Nik Reeves-McLaren
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 14 μm - 6 scans vertically stitched together
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS
Carbon Fibre composites
Visualisation by: Ria Mitchell
Voxel size: 500 nm
Depts. Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, TUoS