X-ray diffraction laboratory providing services for materials research, namely, material analysis and surface and subsurface material analysis or metallic, ceramic and composite materials to determine the chemical composition, residual stress, the phase composition, the microstructural characteristics of materials; residual stress measurement of metallic, ceramic and composite materials; quantitative phase analysis of metallic, ceramic, composite materials, cements, corrosion products, minerals and ores to determine the volume fraction of phases present and the percent austenite in steel, percent of cristobalite in fused silica, analysis of soils, sintered ceramics, metals, coatings and minerals, and specialized techniques for plasma spray coatings, trace levels fo silica, and soils; texture analysis in metallic, ceramic and polymeric materials to determine preferred orientation; pole figure determination for rolled sheet, thin film and extruded metals, ceramics, and polymers; and material and testing consultation provided to the aerospace, automotive, power generation, steel, speciality metals, ceramic, and petrochemical industries