Logistics

Equipments

  • Furnace for heat treatment: CARBOLITE AAF12/18;
  • Tensile testing machine: INSTRON 3382;
  • Experimental hot rolling equipment;
  • Scanning electron microscope: QUANTA 200 3D FEI;
  • Optical metallographic microscope with fluorescence: IOR, type MC 9;
  • Calorimeter: DSC 200 F3 Maia;
  • Mounting press, sanding and polishing metallographic samples: METACUT-M250, FORCIPOL 1V, METAPRESS-M;
  • Free Forging Hammer;
  • SAMSUNG cameras and CANON camcorders;
  • Analytical balances for dosing component alloys;
  • Tool kits;
  • Welding machine.

Technical computing infrastructure

  • Network consisting of a server and 12 Pentium IV computers connected to the Internet;
  • Scanner HP2400;
  • Lexmark P700 and Brother 2400 printers;
  • TV tuner Leadteck, for image capturing;
  • Software: Microsoft Office Student and Teacher 2003, Windows XP professional, Origin 600, lab VIEW.

Research facilities

  • Laboratory for castings equipped with devices (molds, cutters, etc.) and auxiliary materials (sand casting, etc.);
  • Plastic deformation laboratory, equipped with furnaces and experimental hot rolling equipment with instant quenching;
  • Advanced Materials Laboratory, equipped with specialized experimental equipment: (1) deflection under load testing, (2) digital micro-ohmmeter and heating devices for resistive thermal analysis, (3) writers for plotting displacement- temperature and electric resistance-temperature curves.

Purchased equipments 

  • DMA 242 E Artemis – Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer, purchased in stage II/2014