Facilities
Friction Stir Laboratory
A suite of solid-state metal manufacturing capabilities:
Nano Mechanical Testing and Characterization Laboratory
Our Nano mechanical testing (PI 89 SEM PicoIndenter) can perform mechanical characterization on small-scale samples at temperatures up to 1000°C. The PI 89 has in-situ heating elements on the probe and sample that allow for indentation at elevated temperatures. The PI 89 also has cryogenic temperature options that can perform quantitative in-situ nanomechanical testing at temperatures down to -130°C
Our expertise in meso-nanoscale characterization allows a multi-length scale analysis of our materials.
Center of Additive Manufacturing and Logistics (CAMAL)
- Apparatus for Hot and Cold Rolling of materials
- Facilities for Additive Manufacturing (available as a shared resource).
- Shot Peening Surface Treatment.
- Furnace for Annealing with a regulated atmosphere
- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) capabilities
- ThermoFisher Titan 80-300: High-precision Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) with aberration correction
- Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
- Plasma-Focused Ion Beam (FIB) instrumentation
- Squid and PPMS
- X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis tools
- Facilities for cryo and high-temperature mechanical property testing
- High-speed cryo ball milling
- Electro Polishing