The monitoring system for a gas turbine engine including a viewing tube assembly having an inner end and an outer end. This system includes a plurality of components positionable on a selected location for establishment of a multi-station decontamination and containment facility to decontaminate personnel and to contain contaminants collected during the decontamination process. Further, the invention also provides the capability of properly checkpointing a data write to a stripe according to whether or not the stripe unit has been migrated previously. Because both the initiation and the rate of polymerization may be controlled with temperature, the inventive methods are especially suitable for ring opening metathesis polymerization reactions and for molding polymer articles that require extended pot-lives. Processing is laser-performed in relation to a selected material whose internal crystalline structure becomes appropriately changed thereby to establish the desired mechanical properties for a created device.