Facilities

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