Designing self-healing metals is challenging because it requires a driving force such as high temperature conditions to trigger the diffusion and/or local melting process of a healing agent. Proper understanding of healing mechanism, followed by the healing treatment optimization depends on accurate microstructural analysis, performed at the exact location of damage. Therefore, a correlative imaging is required to evidence the microstructure healing efficiency.
Gheysen, J., Pyka, G., Winiarski, B., Hannard, F., Arseenko, M., Villanova, J., Brinek, A., Chirazi, A., & Simar, A. (2022). Correlative tomography-based characterization of a newly developed liquid assisted healable Al alloy. ictms2022 : 5th International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures, Grenoble, France. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/109376