X-ray imaging, radiography and tomography, using high-energy and monochromatic synchrotron radiation can reveal mechanisms taking place such as the development of microstructures as temperature, pressure and stress are changed. At beamline I12-JEEP, the ability to accomodate materials processing and testing equipment and using a high energy (50-150 keV) monochromatic X-ray beam up to 100 millimeters wide allows the study of processes taking place in engineering and natural materials at realistic processing time-scales and meso-to-macroscopic scales.

Studies of  bubble and crystal growth during solidification of casting metal alloys, volcanic materials at high pressures, high-speed radiography of the laser-metal interaction  during additive manufacturing, at at the other extreme, fixation of engineering structures into the subsoil mineral all benefit from the cabability of acquiring mesoscopic images during the internal changes of the materials.