Experimental Facilities FMC

Thermomechanical testing

• Mechanical deformation machine INSTRON 1362 with thermal chamber (100N - 100kN, -50C to +150C)
• Servohydraulic deformation machine INSTRON 8872 with thermal chamber INSTRON (100N - 25kN, -100C to +550C, <100Hz)
• Electrodynamical linear-torsion deformation machine INSTRON ElectroPuls E10000 with thermal chamber and videoextensometer AVE2 (+- 10 kN dynamic, +- 7 kN static, +- -100C to +350C, up to 100Hz)
• SMA wire tester Walter&bai (100N,500N,5kN, 2000 mm/min) with Peltier furnace (-35C to +180C) with videoextensometer and integrated resistivity measurement system
• Dedicated self developed PC controlled miniature screw driven deformation rigs for in-situ experiments on thin SMA filaments
• In-house developed device for an in-situ inspection of NiTi textiles consisting of a scanning head and biaxial tensile machine. The scanning head is equipped with optical CCD camera, infrared camera and a 2D laser
• Digital Image Correlation systems VIC-3D, Mercury RT with cameras (fast - MCR-2048-165, 2/3” sensor, 2MPx @ 165 fps, high resolution - Stingray 5 Mpx @ 10 fps)
• Optical furnace (four water cooled rectangular-shaped parabolic reflectors (350 x 80 mm) equiped with 2 kW heat radiation sources)
• Dynamical mechanical analysis - DMA 850 - TA Instruments
• Thermomechanical Analyzer - Linseis TMA PT 1600
• Nanoindetor FemtoTools FT-NMT04 IN-SITU SEM

Material characterisation

• Optical microscope OPTON with Nomarski interference contrast and image analyser LUCIA
• Optical microscope Zeiss Imager.Z1m with Nomarski interference contrast
• Digital microscopes
  • KEYENCE VHX 7000 + VHX7100
  • KEYENCE VHX 7000 + VHX7020
• Thermal cameras
  •  Infrared camera FLIR A40M
  • Cooled infrared camera - Infratec ImageIR 8300
• Calorimetrs
  • Differential scanning calorimetry - Linkam DSC 600
  • Differential scanning calorimetry - Discovery DSC 25

Alloy casting and single crystal growth

• Bridgman technique resistance heated crystal growth furnace Granat ((IKAN, Russia), working under vacuum (10-3 Pa), inert or reduction temperature
• Furnaces for sample annealing, shape setting and other thermal treatments under vacuum or inert gas atmosphere
• Laminating Hot Press 500°C or 750°C 24T

Further equipment

• Laser profilometer
• Multiple National Instruments DAQ and CompactRIO
• Laser engraving machine LASER Station ROD 20