Technologies and Facilities 

If your company is considering a collaboration with the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, as well as the research expertise of our faculty, we can provide state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for the project: 

Powder Processing Equipment 

• Attrition, ball and cryogenic milling equipment
• Netzsch Dilatometer
• Stanton Redcroft DTA/TGA
• Micromeritics Helium Pycnometry
• Quantachrome Mercury Porosimetry
• Micromeritics BET Surface Area
• Micro Raman Spectroscopy

Mechanical Testing Equipment 

• Instron Tension/Compression m/c
• ESH Servo-Hydraulic Fatigue m/c
• Purpose-built Torque-Tension
• Micro/Macro Hardness Testers
• Charpy Impact / Grindosonic Modulus
• FTA 200 angstrom wettability analyser
• High temperature capillary viscometry
• Bulge forming

Microstructure Characterisation Equipment 

• Optical Microscopes / Image Analysis
• Sample preparation equipment
• SEM (Carl Zeiss LS15) with EDX, BSD, and Cathode luminescence
• Alicona software
• Bruker D8 Advance XRD
• Spectrometers – Spectro LES, ICP, AAS, USB650-VIS-NIR Red Tide /  integrating sphere Labsphere 4PGPS040S 

Surface Coating Equipment

• HVOF, Thermal Plasma Spray, PVD, CVD, Magnetron Sputtering
• Surface characterisation equipment: CII Veeco AFM, Nikon stylus profilometers, Laser profilometer / interferometry, Infinite focus microscope, Veeco white light interferometer (NT1100)

Powder Sintering Equipment

• Stratasys FDM, ZCorp 3DP 310, Wax prototyping

Laser Processing

• CO2 1.5 kW Rofin laser centre, CO¬2 100W, Excimer ATLEX-200/300i (KrF 248 nm), 1.6 J Nd:YAG Newport Quanta Ray, Nd:YAG 2 and 4  W, 532 nm (Freq. doubled Nd:YAG) 4 W, Ti-Sapphire femtosecond laser