The following devices are available in the lab of
Rome:
- an Infrared Rays heated furnace (Data-Trak) equipped with a quarz 50 mm chamber, allowing to set up a controlled atmosphere for small size samples;
- an apparatus designed to simulate the welding cycles (SMITWELD) and the impact of the process on micostructures;
- two dilatometers (THETA and ADAMEL) also permitting the determination of critical temperatures;
- One Wolpert durometer.
The lab located in
Terni is endowed with:
- six heat furnaces with circular section cameras (85-100 mm diameter for five units, and 200 mm diameter for one unit). They can operate in controlled atmospheres (usually composed of N2, H2, He, Ar and NH3). Some of them can also control the humidity level and the ammonia atmosphere to simulate nitriding surface tratment processes. Three of them can be set at a maximum temperature value of 1200°C. The medium sample size is 80*300*2 mm (for flat samples) and the samples dimension can be changed in order to take into account the the camera stable thermal zone;
- a pilot line for the continuous heat treatmets of 110÷120 mm large and 0.20÷0.50 mm thick flat sheets consisting of:
- one degreasing section;
- a high-powered induction heating station capable of an heating speed between 500 ÷ 1000°C/sa long furnace with a maximum temperature of 950°C which is composed of several thermically different and possibly managed simultaneously at different atmospheres (N2, H2, He, Ar and NH3) sections.
- one cooling section adopting liquid and gas jet coolers;
-one deposition section;
- one drying furnace.