FIB-SEM investigation and uniaxial compression of flexible graphite

Emanuele Solfiti, Di Wan, Ambra Celotto +9

Flexible graphite (FG) with 1 - 1.2 g/cm${}^3$ density is employed as beam energy absorber material in the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beam dumping system. However, the increa…