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Lab & Facilities
- A laboratory-sized Cold Press which can develop a 60 tons forming force; and a servo-control press featured with a 250 ton maximum force, a speed control up to 100mm/min, and a 50 cm stroke space featured with a forces and displacements record system.
The former is used for studies targeting the development and characterisation of materials designed for drawing and deep drawing, the latter is largely employed to implement the gas forming, hot pressing and superplastic forging of alloys, powders and dispersed particle composites.
- A ceramics and refractory materials laboratory featured with the technological support necessary for both the powder processing and the green body formation( e.g. planetary and vibratory mills, water spray dryers, hydraulic presses, etc.) carried out with the support of the following equipments:
- a vacuum furnace,
- a vacuum and controlled atmosphere Mechanical hot press (30MPa, 2200 °C, Ø=80 mm, h=100 mm),
- a Gas pressure sintering furnace (10MPa, 2200 °C, Ø=120 mm, h= 120 mm),
- a HIP - Hot-isostatic press(200 MPa, 2000 °C, Ø=250 mm, h=750 mm),
- small, medium and large rapid temperature furnaces.
- The Vacuum Resin Infusion and Resin Transfer Moulding¸30 lit heated reservoir which can handle the resin and catalysts separately or mixed together. The maximum injection pressure of exercise can reach 8 Bar. The equipment is also served by a vacuum pump aimed to reduce at acceptable levels undesired voids and porosities.
- A press designed to be run both as a Hot Metal Gas Formingand Super Plastic Forging Equipment. It has a 250 tons (± 1%) rated pressure with a very refined control of the position (0.01 mm/mm sensibility) granted by an optical transducer and and a speed as low as 1mm/min.
- A home-made Roll Diffusion Bonding Mill (TRASCOMP) aimed at manufacturing cheaper 10 cm wide Ti/SiC Metal Matrix composite strips (iCSMet®) than those produced by hot isostatic pressing.
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