Materials Processing Facilities
- Spark plasma sintering
- Gleeble 3800 thermal mechanical simulator
- Friction stir welding machine
- Friction welding machine
- Vacuum brazing furnace
- Plasma arc welding machine
- Cold metal transfer welding machine
- Resistance spot welding machine
- Precision high speed cutting machine
- Flash butt welding machine
- Automatic TIG welding machine
- Vacuum induction melting furnace
- Fritsch P5 high energy ball mills
- Zoz simoloyer
- EDM cutting machine
- High pressure (~20 bar) nitridation chamber
- Hydraulic presses & forming facilities
- Vacuum arc melting & suction casting
Materials Characterisation Facilities
- Titan 80-300 TEM with Cs Corrector
- CM12 TEM
- Tecnai T20 TEM
- Quanta 200 SEM (MK1)
- Versa 3D Focused ion beam SEM
- Quanta 400 FEG SEM
- INSPECT F SEM
- Bruker Discover D8 AXS XRD
- Rigaku miniflex-II XRD
- Proto iXRD residual stress analyser
- Panalytical XRD (up to 1600 C)
- Hysitron 9500 Nanoindentor
- Netzsch DSC (up to 1500 C)
- Perkin Elmer DSC (up to 700 C)
- Dilatometer (up to 1650 C)
- Particle size analyser
- Optical profiler
- Optical emission spectroscope
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer
- FT-IR spectrometer
- UV – Visible spectrophotometer
- Solatron 1260 A frequency response analyzer
- Contact angle measurement system
- NDT facilities
- CEAST Instrumented drop tower impact testing machine
- ATS Creep testing frame -100 kN
- Zwick Roell 100 kN high temp testing
- Zwick Roell 10 kN UTM
- Instron 30 kN UTM
- Dartech fatigue testing machine
- MTS 810.22 Servo hydraulic dynamic testing machine
- Abrasion tester
- Erosion tester (Dry and slurry)
- High speed camera – FASTCAM SA4 – 500K C3
- Digital image correlation system
- Mercury intrusion porosimeter
Major Softwares
- Simufact software
- Thermo-Calc & Dictra
- FactSage
- MedeA & VASP
- JmatPro
- MatCalc
- Pandat
- Micress
- METSIM
- Pearson Crystal Data
- HSC Chemistry
- Wien2K
- TC-Prisma