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14IND03 Strength-ABLE

Grant Agreement number 14IND03

Project short name Strength-ABLE

Project full title Metrology for length-scale engineering of materials

Version numbers of latest contracted Annex 1 and Annex 2 against which the assessment will be made

Annex 1: V1.0

Annex 2: V1.0

Technical Report (Progress) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Period covered (dates) From 01/03/2016 To 30/11/2016

For JRPs:

Project start date and duration: 1st June 2015, 36 MonthsJRP-Coordinator: Xiaodong Hou, NPL Tel + 44 20 8943 6637 E-mail [email protected] website address: http://empir.npl.co.uk/strength-able/

Internal Funded Partners:

1 NPL, UK

2 BAM, Germany

3 CMI, Czech Republic

4 DFM, Denmark

5 INRIM, Italy

External Funded Partners:

6 Adama, Ireland

7 QMUL, UK

8 TUCh, Germany

9 UCov, UK

10 UKAEA, UK

11 UoL, UK

Unfunded Partners:

12 APT, Switzerland

13 ATOTECH, Germany

14 E6, UK

15 EMPA, Switzerland

16 FhG, Germany

17 MML, UK

18 PTB, Germany

Report Status: CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including EURAMET and the European Commission Services)

Technical Report (Progress) 1 of 18 Issued: November 2016

TECHNICAL REPORT (PROGRESS)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Summary...................................................................................................................................32 Overview of progress towards the objectives of the project.....................................................3

2.1 Objectives.............................................................................................................................32.2 Deliverables status and progress towards objectives...........................................................52.3 Summary of exploitable results and an explanation about how they can/will be exploited...9

3 Explanation of the work carried out........................................................................................114 Deviations from Annex 1 (tasks not fully implemented), the consequences and proposed

corrective actions....................................................................................................................195 Ethical Issues (if applicable)...................................................................................................19



1 SummaryThis report covers the second 9 months of the project (01 March 2016 – 30 November 2016).

The project is proceeding well and predominantly to plan. There are no organisation difficulties and the JRP-Partners are working well together.

Main achievements for the JRP Partners during this reporting period:

A second generation of single crystal diamond AFM probes for nano-indentation was produced by Adama targeting oblique cone angle with sharp apex and high spring constant. These probes are more comparable with the geometries of indenters generally used in nano-indentations and the high spring constant will allow a higher indenter force.

A traceable MEMS-based instrumented indentation system was designed, including a clamping mechanism to integrate the diamond tip into the MEMS device in addition to the gluing mechanism originally proposed.

A list of materials were identified and obtained for the use of the project. Testing samples were prepared and characterised. The partners are working on contributing length-scale data to a data matrix.

UCov has obtained under non-disclosure, access to the structural design for a commercial high pressure automotive fuel rail. Burst test data has been obtained for the body of the design. A similar sized body structure has been constructed by 2D electro-deposition, using a mid-length-scale material.

Task 3.2 is reported as delayed due to the delay of materials received the characterization is slightly behind schedule. The sample characterisation work are being carried out by relevant partners.

No good news stories added at this point.

2 Overview of progress towards the objectives of the project2.1 ObjectivesThe project addresses the following scientific and technical objectives:

1. Develop validated design rules for combining different size effects to optimise strength and toughness of materials and components over a range of temperatures. Develop a plasticity size effect algorithm for processing small scale test data maps to obtain material-only properties. This algorithm will be incorporated into an analysis programme to support materials property mapping (by indentation) of surfaces and small volumes of materials. The project will enable simultaneous calculation of multiple length-scale effects reduce the uncertainty in property and performance prediction by an order of magnitude (from factors of 2 or more to tens of percent).

2. Improve nano- to micro-scale property measurements by developing a MEMS-based instrumented indentation (IIT) system to bridge the length and force-scale (<1µm to ~10 µm, 1 µN to ~few hundred µN) between AFM and nanoindentation; developing better-defined-shape probes with lower uncertainty contact sizes; and improving AFM-based property measurements. The project will develop tips down to less than 10 nm in size with ~1 nm precision, and/or with high aspect ratio, exact shape and high repeatability. These tips will also be stronger (up to 100 GPa), cheaper (~1/10th of cost), better-defined-shape that will reduce the key uncertainty of tip contact area from ~50 % to ~10 %



3. Develop methods and associated uncertainty budgets to determine the length-scale dependence of the strength and toughness of materials vs. temperature. The methods will have sufficient resolution to distinguish between model predictions and will use:

o Characterization methods, such as for dimension of a particle, structure or layer, grain size, crystal orientation and crystal rotation, residual stress.

o High-resolution indentation and compression (vs. temperature) of surfaces, micro /nanostructures.

o Systematic quantitative variation or estimation of dislocation density.

The project will establish a new NMI capability in high temperature indentation, at temperatures up to 400 °C in air and at least 500 °C in vacuo with a reduction of uncertainties to 10 % in high T indentation modulus and hardness. In addition, the project will establish a new capability for high temperature, high spatial resolution (lateral <10 µm, depth ~10 nm), indentation creep measurement.

4. Develop and evaluate new measurement methods to distinguish between the contribution(s) to the total test response from test-related size effects (i.e. Indentation Size Effect) and that from size-related strength or plastic deformation properties of a particle, volume, or structure. In addition to conduct a feasibility study to determine the capability of the measurement methods to characterise and map difficult to measure properties such as material dislocation density and mobility, stacking fault energy and plastic deformation zone size

5. Support the competitiveness of EU industry by engaging with industries using manufacturing technologies and process control and by supporting the development of new, innovative products. This includes conducting case studies to facilitate the uptake of the technology and measurement infrastructure developed by the project; and by contributing to standardisation bodies.



2.2 Deliverables status and progress towards objectivesRelevant objective

Related WP number

Del. No.

Deliverable description

Partners (Lead in bold)

Delivery date as per Annex 1

Actual Delivery date

Status:inactive,on schedule,delayed to..., or completed & submitted to EURAMET

Progress towards objectives(one paragraph includes all partners)(max 250 words per deliverable)

1 WP1 D1 Validated design rules for combining different size effects to predict the strength of materials at a given temperature in the range 20 ºC to 500 ºC

UoL, NPL, QMUL, UKAEA, UCov

Jan 2018 (M32)

On schedule

Existing state of the art models addressing the different aspects of the plasticity size effect was selected by UoL, NPL, QMUL, UKAEA and UCov. UKAEA is working on CPFEM UMAT code development for strain gradient crystal plasticity.

1 WP1 D2 User acceptance report for the analysis programme for materials property mapping analysis by indentation

UoL, NPL, QMUL, UCov, UKAEA

Nov 2017 (M30)

On schedule

The physics-based hardness law for the effect of the materials size effect on hardness is under development by UoL, NPL, QMUL, UCov and UKAEA, which will be subsequently developed as an analysis algorithm.

2 WP2 D3 Test report describing new diamond-based probes for AFM with tip sizes down to less than 10 nm achieved with ~1 nm precision that are stronger (up to 100 GPa), cheaper (~1/10th of cost), with a better-defined-shape and uncertainty of tip contact area ~10 %

Adama May 2017 (M24)

On schedule

1st generation Adama diamond probes supplied to DFM were tested showing high stability across a range of samples including fused silica, HSQ resist, polystyrene, sapphire and stainless steel. Ongoing development at Adama of 2nd generation probes will examine an expansion of the oblique cone angle to 100 nm depth, a new tilt-correction method to compensate AFM mounting, and wafer-scale yields. These probes will be tested by UCov, DFM, and PTB.

2 WP2 D4 ISO14577-2 compatible calibration

Adama, NPL,

May 2017 (M24)

On schedule TUCh finished the MEMS preparation and mount some samples on PCB, now PTB has to test the samples of

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and verification report for the MEMS-based IIT system that will bridge the length and force-scale (<1 μm to ~10 μm, 1 μN to ~few hundred μN) between AFM and nanoindentation

DFM, TUCh, PTB

functionality and calibrate the MEMS based system. One of the new diamond probes developed by Adama was used in the test system, and the expertise of DFM and NPL was used to develop the test procedure and system makeup that was used.

3 WP3 D5 User acceptance report containing ISO14577-2 compatible calibration and indirect verification for the high temperature IIT system at temperatures up to 400 °C in air and at least 500 °C in vacuo with a reduction of uncertainties to 10 % in high T indentation modulus and hardness. In addition, demonstrating capability for high temperature, high spatial resolution (lateral <10 μm, depth ~10 nm), indentation creep measurement.

NPL, UCov, BAM, MML, APT, EMPA

Nov 2017 (M30)

On schedule

NPL has purchased a new instrumented nano-indentation tester that is capable of testing at temperature above 700°C in vacuo. The system is expected to be delivered by the Feb 2017.

EMPA is in the progress to install a new nano-indentation tester running up to 700 °C

Partners UCov, BAM, APT, MML and EMPA are expected to participate this deliverable at the next stages.

3 WP3 D6 Documented contents and structure of the data matrix of material response as a function of length-scale and

BAM, all partners

Jan 2018 (M32)

On schedule BAM with support from all partners created a data matrix which incorporated their data in a logical and simple way; the next step will be to incorporate data from other partners into this data matrix.



temperature4 WP4 D7 New test methods for

indentation stress-strain curves and property mapping

QMUL, NPL, UCov, CMI, PTB, EMPA

Feb 2018 (M33)

On schedule

QMUL arranged a student taking an industrial replacement with UKAEA for one year (Oct2015-Aug2016). Indentation were carried out on single crystal and initial indentation stress-strain results were obtained using spherical indenters with different radii.

A second industrial placement student from QMUL has started at UKAEA. This student’s project is focused on the measurement and characterisation of pile up surrounding the indenter tip as a function of strain and tip size. The data generated at UKAEA will feed into task 4.1. UKAEA is working with NPL and UCov on the spherical indenter area function calibration, which is a key input for the data analysis of indenter stress-strain curves.

Partners CMI, PTB, NPL, UCOv and EMPA haven’t participated in this deliverable yet. Their role will become active at the next stages of the research.

5 WP5 D8 Report on industrial impact case studies

NPL, all partners

May 2018 (M36)

On schedule Significant progress were made in four case studies> Only UCov, FhG, and UKAEA, E6 and NPL have participated in this aspect of work up to this time. .CS1: UCov has obtained under non-disclosure, access to the structural design for a commercial high pressure automotive fuel rail. Burst test data has been obtained for the body of the design. A similar sized body structure has been constructed by 2D electro-deposition, using a mid-length-scale material, and is due to be burst tested in Q1 2017.

CS3: NPL and E6 have held discussions to plan this the work under this case study which will be a collaboration between NPL and E6.

CS4: FhG metallized first around 65 samples with Ti/Cr/80Au20Sn, identified different samples metallization thickness from the substrate centre to the side, this will be used to achieve different samples final composition. Later



FhG metallized a run with approx. 65 samples with Ti/Cr/Au, during the process 50% of the samples were removed when the thickness was approximately 3100 nm. Then, the process continued to achieve with the remaining 50% of the samples 4100 nm. FhG also expects different thickness depending on the samples position on the substrate (center to side). A Design-of-Experiment plan was performed.

CS6: UKAEA submitted purchase to NNL for 3 x Magnox ex-surveillance samples expected for delivery in the first half of 2017.

5 WP5 D9 Evidence of contributions to new or improved international standards; specifically focussing on the following standards and committees: ISO14577, ISO\TR29381, ISO/TC164, VAMAS TWA22, CCM-WGH, and examples of early uptake of project outputs by end-users

NPL, all partners

May 2018 (M36)

On schedule

BAM, NPL, UCov attended the ISOTC164 annual meeting held in Tokyo Oct 2016. The preparation for the working item “ISO 14577 – Part 7: Instrumented indentation test at elevated temperature” is still on going. NPL and UCov also attended the CCM-WGH meeting held in conjunction with the ISO TC164 annual meetingOther partners have fed information into the standardisation process through discussion at project and other meetings to develop a common approach to standardisation..

n/a WP6 D10 Delivery of all technical and financial reporting documents as required by EURAMET

NPL, all partners

May 2018 (M36) + 60 days

On schedule

The publishable summary was submitted by NPL with support from all partners. The progress report and impact report were submitted together with this report.



2.3 Summary of exploitable results and an explanation about how they can/will be exploited

There are many benefits from this project which are expected to lead to strong impact in the next five years. These include:

The provision of new materials modelling capability to achieve the benefits inherent through length scale engineering to enable better products to be designed more cost effectively.

The abiltiy to validate the improved performance of materials through length scale engineering by use of new measurement analysis methods which separate machine affects from true material responses.

The development of a new MEMS based meso-scale mechanical testing system filling in a market gap between AFM based machanical testing and nanoindentation.

The ability of research institute partners to provide better measurements to their customer base who in turn will gain new confidence in the performance of their products.

The ability of the two instrument manufacturers in the consortium to provide improved test systems to their customers.

Case studies within the project on real production materials will demonstrate these benefits in real terms to these partners and their customers.

The participants in the case studies receive immediate benefit from the characterisation of their products. In addition the partners are working with a company to develop a new high pressure automotive manifold using additive manufacturing methods to obtain a controlled microstructure whose performance will be tested using the methods developed in the project. The benefits will be to reduce the number of components used to make the manifold to a single piece, reducing complexity and risk of failure; reducing weight, with comperable strength, and by using a metal rather than an alloy, increasing the recyclability of the component at end of life. This manufacturing process will have benefits beyond the automotive industry.

The successful development of new MEMS based indenter has been taken forward by the University of Chemnitz. Adama are developing improved diamond AFM tips to support this instrument which will be more resistant to damage and allow increased loading. Adama will benefit from increased sales and AFM users from benefit from a reduction in the main uncertainty in AFM indentation (tip shape and contact size) and significantly increase the maximum hardness of materials that can be tested.

The development of new high temperature nanoindenter test procedures at NPL will open a new area of research to the indentation world and provide data to materials developers for high temperature processes. Standards for the characterisation of materials at high temperature by nanoindentation will be developed in follow on work.

Three new collaborators joined the Strength-ABLE platform during the past 9 months:

Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA), Maschinenfabrik Kaspar WALTER GmbH & Co.KG and Bruker nano GmbH. The work already started with these collaborator to transfer using knowledges obtained in this project.

A few stakeholders from industry showed great interests in this project including Robert Bosch GmbH, CTR Carinthian Tech Research AG and Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule.

A workshop is planned to be held in the third quarter of 2017 to provide more opportunity to work with industry.

The standardisation work will be continued.



3 Explanation of the work carried outTask number & title

Task end date as per Annex 1

Actual task completion date

Status:inactive,on schedule,delayed to..., or completed

Explanation of the work carried out in each task

Summarise the highlights and progress towards completing each task

Explain any issues affecting the completion of the tasks (eg describe the cause of delays / deviations etc. and any knock-on effects)(max 300 words per task)

Task 1.1: Validated design rules for combining size effects

M32Jan-18

on schedule UKAEA is working on CPFEM UMAT code development for strain gradient crystal plasticity. The main output including fixing errors when rotating the anisotropic elastic stiffness matrix and implementing a more accurate Newton loop to incorporate elastic rotation of the slip systemsInvestigating how to update the orientation matrix due to elastic spin

UKAEA is working on discrete dislocation Plasticity code development:Developed a new algorithm to calculate the displacement field of a 3D dislocation network based on the Barnett solution.

Task 1.2: Length scale enabled plasticity models able to support property/stress mapping

M30Nov-17

on schedule UoL is continuing the work on crystal plasticity based finite element size effect model and simulations were carried out for indentation contact with different contact geometries. A PhD student started to continue develop the codes.

Task 2.1: Develop stronger, stiffer AFM and IIT

M24May-17

on schedule A 2nd generation of single crystal diamond AFM probes for nano-indentation was produced by Adama targeting oblique cone angle with sharp apex and high spring constant. Tip shape was characterized by SEM and an AFM tip-checker sample before and after, verifying excellent stability.

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probes with highly repeatable, better defined tip shape

UCov have received Adama cantilevers, which are compatible with the UCov Park NX20 AFM and have worked with Adama to advise on the use of reference materials and to design suitable experiments for testing the cantilever and tip performance. Testing is ongoing.

DFM have done measurements with Adama probes on various materials and characterized the tip shape after these measurements to check tip durability.

Task 2.2: Develop a MEMS-based IIT system with traceable force and displacement

M24May-17

on schedule TUCh finished the MEMS preparation and mount some samples on PCB, now PTB has to test the samples of functionality and calibrate the MEMS based system.

PTB has finished the design of a MEMS nanoindenter based on electrostatic nano-force transducer featuring utilization of exchangeable cantilevers. With the help of finite element simulation, the fundamental mechanical performances, including MEMS stiffness and maximum indentation depth of the MEMS nanoindenter have been numerically determined. An integrated cantilever holder specialized for AFM nanomechanical probes has been designed and numerically investigated.

UCov has worked with NPL to calibrate the displacement of the NX20 traceably using a traceably calibrated closed loop piezo stage as a transfer standard. UCov has worked with PTB to measure the vertical stiffness of a cantilever using the MEMS device version 1. UCov with PTB have shown that the MEMS device output data can be directly captured by the NX20 in a synchronous manner for point by point comparison with other captured data streams that include all the usual AFM data and also time stamp data. This allows direct measurement in a format directly analysable by the NX20 software. A paper draft is being prepared based on this work.



UCov have collaborated with NPL PTB ADAMA DFM and TUC to ensure that the MEMS device version 2 has suitable cantilever mounting capabilities for clamping an AFM tip in place without the requirement for gluing.

Task 2.3: Incorporation of optimised diamond probes into MEMS-based IIT system

M24May-17

on scheduleNow-fabricated (Nov. 2016) MEMS chips are to be shipped to Adama for fitting and adjustment.

UCov PTB NPL and Adama have developed a revised work plan to enable direct comparison of measurements between AFM, IIT and MEMS devices at UCov and PTB.

An important contribution from DFM to the project will be that a DFM scientist will be guest worker at PTB for four weeks, to develop the MEM-based IIT system. This guest worker assignment is preliminary agreed with PTB to take place in the first half of 2017.

Task 3.1: Materials procurement and sample generation

M15Aug-16

M15Aug-16

completed A list of materials were identified and obtained for the use of the project including Cu, CuCrZr, Ni and Cr coating, 80Au20Sn, CuSn3. In addition, UCov has obtained samples (repurposed from other projects) of single crystal Fe, single crystal W and polycrystalline NiMoNic 75 Nb and 304 stainless steel. UKAEA has been working with Eric Schmid Institute (Leoben, Austria) to produce CuCrZr samples through a high strain process combining compression and torsion to produce highly worked alloy and small grain size material.

Task 3.2: Sample characterisation using current state of the art

M18Nov-16

Delayed to Mar-17

EBSD was carried out on single crystal and polycrystalline copper, Ni, Cr VI thin films.

All samples of CuCrZr and cold worked copper have now been measured using EBSD.TEM analysis of the precipitate microstructure is being planned at UKAEA for the CuCrZr samples. The cold worked copper

Due to delay of materials received the characterization is slightly behind schedule. This delay will not have any effect in the delivery of other tasks.



methods samples require analysis by TEM, which will be carried out by Mar 2017Task 3.3: Mechanical testing as a function of length-scale

M22Mar-17

on schedule Indentation tests were performed on selected samples (Cu and CuCrZr) as a function of indentation size, including data obtained using nano-indentation, micro-indentation and macro-indentation. The influence of indenter curvature was observed and the understanding of indenter geometry influence on the measurement results is in progress.

All indentation testing has now been carried out on the CuCrZr using tips of various sizes from R=2um to R=1250um. Additionally identical testing has been carried out for all cold worked copper samples. Some work is now required to interpret and understand results. UKAEA is currently working on coding for a standard user friendly data analysis tool, instrument calibration, independent tip measurement and verification, and AFM measurement and analysis of indentation pile-up.

Uniaxial tests were also performed on selected samples (Cu and CuCrZr) as a function of length-scales from micro-pillar compression (micro-meter range), to miniaturised ETMT testing (millimetre range), and macro testing (centimetre range). The macro data were obtained using the “stress-strain” device has been specifically designed and realized by INRIM.

Task 3.4: Thermal stability of length-scale-enabled strength

M32Jan-18

Delayed to Mar 18

NPL has purchased a new instrumented nano-indentation tester that is capable of testing at temperature above 700°C in vacuo. The system is expected to be delivered by Feb 2017. INRIM is still working on developing testing facility with induction heating to allow macro-scale uniaxial testing at elevated temperatures. EMPA is in the progress to install a new nano-indentation tester running up to 700 °C

It took longer than originally expected to go through the procurement process but now the system is ordered and will be delivered by the end of Feb 2017. We are working on plans to make sure the system will be ready for data collection once installation and testing is completed. There will be no effects due to this delay on



other tasks in the project.Task 4.1 Extracting the material size-enabled performance from the indentation size affected test response

M32Jan-18

on schedule Work started on the data obtained under Task 3.3 to identify the key lengths involved: i.e. a comparison of the different Indentation Size Effect functions is being made by UCov on indentation data obtained from single crystals of Cu, Fe, and W and from polycrystalline W, NiMoNic 75, Nb and 304 stainless steel. Analysis is ongoing to determine, and feed back to WP3, the optimum indentation cycle to use for future data generation.

Task 4.2 Indentation property mapping (stress vs. strain, residual stress)

M33Feb-18

on schedule QMUL arranged a student taking an industrial replacement with UKAEA for one year (Oct2015-Aug2016). Indentation were carried out on single crystal and initial indentation stress-strain results were obtained using spherical indenters with different radii.

A second industrial placement student from QMUL has started at UKAEA. This student’s project is focused on the measurement and characterisation of pile up surrounding the indenter tip as a function of strain and tip size.

The data generated at UKAEA will feed into task 4.1. UoC has generated data on a range of materials with different material properties to assess the effects of residual stress on measurements of elastic modulus as part of task 4.1. QMUL and APT have identified materials suitable for mapping mechanical properties and obtained preliminary data for task 4.2. Partners NPL, CMI, PTB and EMPA haven’t participated in this deliverable yet. Their role will become active at the next stages of the research.

Task 4.3 Feasibility of Indentation mapping of novel material

M33Feb-18

inactive This task has not started.



propertiesTask 5.1 Direct impact industrial case studies

M36May-18

on schedule CS1: UCov has obtained under non-disclosure, access to the structural design for a commercial high pressure automotive fuel rail. Burst test data has been obtained for the body of the design. A similar sized body structure has been constructed by 2D electro-deposition, using a mid-length-scale material, and is due to be burst tested in Q1 2017.

CS4: FhG metallized first around 65 samples with Ti/Cr/80Au20Sn, identified different samples metallization thickness from the substrate centre to the side, this will be used to achieve different samples final composition. Later FhG metallized a run with approx. 65 samples with Ti/Cr/Au, during the process 50% of the samples were removed when the thickness was approximately 3100 nm. Then, the process continued to achieve with the remaining 50% of the samples 4100 nm. FhG also expects different thickness depending on the samples position on the substrate (center to side). A Design-of-Experiment plan was performed.

CS6: UKAEA submitted purchase to NNL for 3 x Magnox ex-surveillance samples expected for delivery in the first half of 2017.

Task 5.2 Knowledge Transfer

M36May-18

on schedule The JRP website has been regularly updated.

Papers and conference presentations are listed in the impact report.

Two highlights:

Three new collaborators joined the project.

UCov led the UK delegation to ISO/TC 164/SC3 Mechanical testing of Metals – indentation testing. Here it was agreed to work with SC3 and its working group WG4 to develop further instrumented indentationtesting methods for creep properties, elevated temperature testing and discussed adoption of project outputs.

Task 5.3 Training

M36May-18

on schedule PTB will host a guest worker from DFM, the current proposed time is the



April 2017.

Two trainings were delivered by QMUL as included in the impact report.

Task 5.4 Uptake and Exploitation

M36May-18

on scheduleUCov has obtained under non-disclosure, access to the structural design for a commercial high pressure automotive fuel rail. Burst test data has been obtained for the body of the design. A similar sized body structure has been constructed by 2D electro-deposition, using a mid-length-scale material, and is due to be burst tested in Q1 2017.

Task 6.1: Project management

M36May-18

on schedule The JRP-Partners are working well together.

The partners are very motivated participating the activities of this project and attending the project meetings.

QMUL arranged a student taking an industrial replacement with UKAEA for one year (Oct2015-Aug2016). A second industrial placement student from QMUL has started at UKAEA.

NPL will hosted a guest worker from UKAEA (Aug2016-Sep2016). NPL is expected a second guest worker from UKAEA (Sep 2016).

A DFM scientist will be guest worker at PTB for four weeks, to develop the MEM-based IIT system. This guest worker assignment is preliminary agreed with PTB to take place in the first half of 2017.

Due to Xiaodong Hou’s departure from NPL in Jan 2017, Mark Gee will be taking over the coordination role to continue this project. Mark is a NPL fellow with relevant track record and attended all the project meetings.

The project management will be also transferred from Louise Brown to Rob Brooks. Rob is a group leader at NPL who has track record of project



management.

The consortium has been working with both of them and I will support them for a smooth transition.

Task 6.2: Project meetings

M36May-18

on schedule A successful kick off meeting was held at NPL on the 30th June and 1st July 2015. The 9 month meeting was held at BAM on the 14th and 15th March 2016.

Task 6.3: Project reporting

M36May-18

on schedule The publishable summary was updated.

Consortium performanceAll partners have contributed satisfactorily to the activities specified in Annex 1 for this reporting period.



4 Deviations from Annex 1 (tasks not fully implemented), the consequences and proposed corrective actions

- Annex: - Section: - Task:

Summary of proposed corrective action

Reason for deviation from Annex 1

-Annex 1-Section A New contact details for Coordinator:

- Professor Mark Gee

- National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, TW11 0LW

- Tel: +44 2089436374

- E-mail: [email protected]

Professor Mark Gee has replaced Dr Xiaodong Hou as coordinator at the end of January 2017. Dr Xiaodong Hou left NPL for a new position in academia.

5 Ethical Issues (if applicable)

Ethical issues associated with this project (as specified in Annex 1)

Third Countries Yes

Data protection Yes

Dual use Yes

Environmental and health and safety Not applicable

Requirement to complete an Ethics report during the project Not applicable

Overall Conformity with ethical requirements

The coordinator confirms that this project has conformed with all of the necessary ethical requirements specified in the Annex 1 to the Grant Agreement. /

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