Numerical Simulation, Modelization, Mechanical Characterization and Micro-structural Optimization of Industrial Components
Research facilities
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Universal static and dynamic test machines with load capacities from 1 kN to 1000 kN. Possibility of connecting furnaces (up to 1000 ºC) and cooling chambers (down to -196 ºC). Different types of extensometers, including a video extensometer ARAMIS. Design of special devices for testing actual structural components.
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Equipment for dynamic testing concrete specimens and steel rib bars.
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Equipment for axial-torsional mechanical testing.
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Resonance fatigue machine, designed for high cycle testing
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Rotating beam fatigue machine.
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Charpy pendulum and drop weight dynamic test.
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Rockwell, Brinell and Vickers Hardness testers and Vickers microhardness tester
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Equipment of optic interferometry
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Equipment of photoelasticity.
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Equipment for extensometric measurement.
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Pin-on-disc tribometer for friction and wear tests (with heating capacity up to 400 ºC).
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Metallography laboratory.
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Optical microscopes and equipment for image analysis.
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Scaning electron microscope (SEM) and elemental analysis by means of disperse energies
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X-ray difractometer for residual stress and residual austenite determination.
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Laboratory furnaces suitable for performing heat treatments up to 1600 ºC.
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Shot peening machine.
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Roughness tester.
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Electrolitic cell for hydrogen introduction on metallic materials.
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A variety of computational hardware and finite element software (ANSYS, ABAQUS, etc.)