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Numerical Simulation, Modelization, Mechanical Characterization and Micro-structural Optimization of Industrial Components 

Research facilities

  • 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.

 

  • Equipment for axial-torsional mechanical testing.

 

  • Resonance fatigue machine, designed for high cycle testing

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  • Rotating beam fatigue machine.

 

  • Charpy pendulum and drop weight dynamic test.

 

  • Rockwell, Brinell and Vickers Hardness testers and Vickers microhardness tester

 

  • Equipment of optic interferometry

 

  • Equipment of photoelasticity.

 

  • Equipment for extensometric measurement.

 

  • Pin-on-disc tribometer for friction and wear tests (with heating capacity up to 400 ºC).

 

  • Metallography laboratory.

 

  • Optical microscopes and equipment for image analysis.

 

  • Scaning electron microscope (SEM) and elemental analysis by means of disperse energies

 

  • X-ray difractometer for residual stress and residual austenite determination.

 

  • Laboratory furnaces suitable for performing heat treatments up to 1600 ºC.

 

  • Shot peening machine.

 

  • Roughness tester.

 

  • Electrolitic cell for hydrogen introduction on metallic materials.

 

  • A variety of computational hardware and finite element software (ANSYS, ABAQUS, etc.) 

 

 

 

 

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