Laboratories

• Calotest

• Nanoindenter (CSM Instrument)

• Scratch test (CSM Instrument)

• Potenziostat (Amel 7050)

• Potenziostat (Amel 2551)

• Impedance measurement system

• Immersion corrosion test with controlled temperature equipment

• Furnaces for melting and heat treatment (up to 1700°C)

• Low temperature furnace for heat treatment (50-500°C)

• Pit furnace (to 2000 cc, to 1200 °C)

• Dewaxing furnace 

• Inert gase tube furnace (up to 1400°C)

• Ultrasonic equipmet (Felisari GV 2000) for liquid metal treatment

• Ultrasonic equipmet (Stimin Sonica Special) for liquid metal treatment

• Induction heater system

• Mechanical tumbler

• Digital microscope (Leica DMS 300) with image analyzer software (Las 4.12)

• Optical microscope (MeF3) with mage analyzer software (Leica Qwin)

• Optical microscope (Leica DMI 5000M) with mage analyzer software (LAS4)

• Universal testing machine Instron mod. 3369, equipped with 10 kN or 50 kN load cell

• Climatic chamber for mechanical testing from -80 to 250 °C

• Rockwell hardness tester

• Brinnell hardness tester to 250 kg

• Vickers hardness tester to 125 kg

• Vickers micro-hardness tester from 10 g to 1 kg

Searle rotational rheometer (Anton Paar), with furnace for tests up to 1000 °C

• Metallographic cutting machine

• Precision microtome

• Various grinding and polishing machines

• Electrolytic polishing system

• Hot mounting press

• Field emission scanning electron microscope (FEG-SEM, Zeiss Sigma 360), with EDS probe

• Field emission scanning electron microscope (SEM, Leo Evo 40XVP), with EDS probe

• Sputter for gold coating of samples

Procast (EsiGroup) software for mold filling and metal solidification simulation

• DSC-TGA (TA Instrument)

• DSC-TGA (Mettler Toledo) 

• Dilatometer (NETZSCH)

• Thermal analysys system with sand crucibles

• Pin-on-disk tribometer (Nanovea) for tests up to 800 °C, equipped with an optical profilometer 

• Pin-on-disk tribometer (CSM Instruments) for tests up to 1000 °C (with lubricant up to 200 °C), equipped with a stylus profilometer 

• Ultrasonic equipment (Felisari GV 2000) for cavitation erosion tests

• Slurry erosion tests equipment