ABSTRACT
At the present time, very few studies have been undertaken using synchrotron radiation, so that the engineering potential of the technique still remains largely untapped. It is anticipated that the development of synchrotron strain scanning will fill the important near-surface gap between what is possible with neutrons and what is accessible with traditional X-ray techniques. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the basic techniques that have been used to date and to review a number of exemplar experiments that illustrate some of the opportunities that synchrotron X-ray diffraction will open up as the technique matures.
