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 4PGPS040SF

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

• Powder compaction/isostatic pressing, high temperature isostatic pressing, ceramic mould preform facilities, sintering ovens/stir casting

Rapid Prototyping

• 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