The Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering is hosting the visit of Zaifol Samsu from the Malaysian Nuclear Agency for 8 weeks. Zaifol has been awarded a placement at ANSTO under the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) Technical Cooperation Programme Project: Building Capacity in Basic Neutron Science and Engineering for Education, Training and Research using a TRIGA Mark II Research Reactor.
During his placement Zaifol is working on the KOWARI residual stress diffractometer with Ania Paradowska and Mark Reid where he is being introduced to residual stress measurements and fitness for purpose assessment procedures along with other materials characterisation methods. He will also have the opportunity to prepare specimens for microscopic investigation under the supervision of Ondrej Muransky. In addition, he will work on the DINGO imaging beamline with instrument scientist Ulf Garbe.
At the end of his visit, Zaifol will return to his role as a Research Officer at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency and will continue undertake research using residual stress and promoting the neutron beamline activities at PUSPATI TRIGA Mark II research reactor. He will also provide education and training to other Malaysian researchers on residual stress and neutron diffraction techniques in order to develop the human resource capacity in this field.
The visit has been coordinated by ANSTO’s International Affairs team.
From left Kaan Sozen (AINSE-ANSTO-UNSW student) and Zaifol Samsu (Nuclear Malaysia) aligning the sample on KOWARI instrument
Published: 27/09/2016