FACILITIES
Materials Preparation
| Vacuum Arc Remelter (VAR) | Up to 150g (for density of 6.5 g ⁄ cm3) |
Sample Preparation
| Grinding& Polishing |
Buehler MetaServ 250 HS (twin) Buehler MiniMet 1000 Buehler Eletroment 4 Fischione twinjet electro-polisher |
| Precision Diamond Saw |
Buehler IsoMet LS Buehler IsoMet 1000 Buehler IsoMet 4000 |
| heat-treating Furnaces |
Lindberg Box furnaces (up to 1500°C, air) Lindberg Tubular furnace (up to 1000°C , vacuum) Lindberg Tubular furnace (up to 1300°C, Three-zone Argon) Salt bath furnace (200°C~700°C) Oil bath furnace (below 200°C) ULVAC Rapid heating& cooling IR furnace |
| Other |
Vacuum quartz tube sealing system Buehler mounting press SimpliMei 4000 Nikon Optical Microscope LV 150N |
Sample Characterization
| Mechanical Properties |
Shimadzu univeral tester (AG-IS 50kN, -80°C~200°C Epsilon extensormeter (3542 Axial) Linkam TST350 tensile testing system (200N, -196°C~350°C) |
| Thermal Analysis |
TA DSC Q (-150°C~400°C) TA DSC 25 (-160°C~400°C) TA DMA 2980 (-130°C~600°C) |
| Non-contact Measurement |
Digital Image Correlations VIC-3D FLIR A615 Infrared camera |