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Description
A hard X-ray engineering application beamline (BL-02) was commissioned recently and started operation in March 2019 at Indian synchrotron storage ring Indus-2. This beamline is capable to operate in various beam modes viz; white beam, pink beam and monochromatic beam. The beamline utilizes X-ray diffraction technique in energy dispersive and angle dispersive modes to carry out experiments mainly focused on engineering problems viz; stress measurement, texture measurement and determination of elastic constants in variety of bulk as well as thin film samples. An open cradle six circle diffractometer with ~12 kg load capacity allows accommodation of wide variety of engineering samples and qualifies the beamline as a unique facility at Indus-2. The high resolution mode of this beamline is suitably designed so as to carry out line profile analysis (LPA) for characterization of micro and nano-structures. In this presentation beamline design, various operational modes and experimental stations are described. Commissioning issues related to experiments executed to validate the beamline design parameters and to demonstrate the capabilities of beamline are discussed in this lecture.
