Infrastructure

Feedstock

• VIM furnace, 5 kg of steel;
• VIM furnace, 100 kg of steel max;
• Electron beam furnace, 1.5 kg of titanium;
• AIM, 100 kg of steel max.

Metallic powder

• Inert gas atomizer-PSI, 5 kg of steel;
• Inert gas atomizer HERMIGA PSI, 15 kg of steel max;
• Spray forming and gas atomizer without controlled atmosphere, 5 Kg of steel max;
• FT4 Powder Reometer;
• Particle insight-particle shape analyser;
• PSD laser diffraction analyzer;
• Microtrac Retsch Camsizer X2;
• Jet mill.

3D printing

• L-PBF machine-Omisint 160, 500 W;
• L-PBF machine OMNISINT-160/2, 300 W, fiber laser flattop and with the possibility to heat the substrate up to 250 ºC;
• L-PBF machine Aurora Labs (model S-Titanium Pro), 300 W, CO2 laser and with the possibility to heat the substrate up to 100 ºC;
• AddUP 5 axis, laser IPG 1.2 kW, spot size 0.8 mm with inert chamber of 1 m3 volume;
• ROMI 4 axis laser n-Light 1.2 Kw, spot size 2 mm ambiente printing, 800 mm longest axis;
• PBF-LB/M machine Renishaw RenAM 500Q HT, quad laser with 500 W, 500 °C preheating;
• PBF-LB/M machine SLM Solutions SLM 250 HL;
• DED-LB/M machine Trumpf TruLaser Cell 7020 5 axis;
• PBF-LB/M machine Aconity3D AconityMINI.

Post-processing/Surface finishing

• CNC machine: Romi DCM 620 5x;
• CNC machine: Romi D 800 3x;
• CNC machine: Romi Lathe E 280;
• Shot peening blast cabinet – Zirtec ZS 9075/E;
• Coordinate measuring machine: Mitutoyo CRYSTA-Apex S 900 Series;
• Portable surface roughness tester: SURTRONIC S-128 – Taylor Hobson Limited;
• Portable X-ray residual stress analyzer: PULSTEC -X360s;
• Surface analyzer Micromeritics ASAP 2020;
• Abrasive flow machining Micro Technica Technologies Delta Towers MF / 100;
• CNC machine: DMG DMU 50;
• CNC machine: Exeron HSC 600;
• CNC machine: Hermle C 50 U;
• CNC machine: MAP LPZ 900;
• CNC machine: Lang MC 500;
• CNC machine: Sauer UltraSonic 260 Composites;
• Streamfinishing machine: OTEC SF – 2;
• Dragfinishing machine: OTEC DF – 3;
• Centrifugal disc grinding machine: OTEC CF – 2;
• Electropolishing machine: OTEC EF-Smart S;
• CMM machines: Zeiss O-Inspect and Zeiss Prismo 7 and Zeiss F25.

Post-processing/Heat Treatment

• Muffle furnace for heat treatment: Flyever FE50RPN;
• Vacuum furnace for heat treatments up to 1000ºC;
• Muffle furnace for heat treatment: Nabertherm LH60/13;
• Quenching dilatometer/.

Mechanical testing

• Microhardness equipment: EMCOTEST DuraScan G5;
• Rotating-beam fatigue machine RBF-200;
• Adapted plane bending fatigue testing machine;
• Rolling contact fatigue bench: Ball-Rod RCF Tester.

Corrosion

• Biologic Potentiostat, model SP-200, voltage 0-12 V and current 500 mA to 10 nA;
• Biologic Potentiostat, model SP-300, voltage 0-12 V and current 500 mA – 10 nA;
• Gamry Potentiostat, Reference 600+ model with voltage 0-11V and current 600 mA – 60 pA;
• Metrohm potentiostat model Autolab PGSTAT302N voltage -10V – 10 V and current 10 nA – 1 A;
• Solartron potentiostat, model SI 1287, voltage 0 – 20V and current 2 A – 200 nA;
• SVET – (Scanning Vibrating Electrode Technique) – Technique of scanning of the vibrating electrode;
• Salt spray chamber – Salt-Spray Equilam.

Microstructure Characterization

• Scanning electron microscope: with EDS, SE and BSE;
• Scanning electron microscope: with FEG;
• Transmission electron microscope with EDS;
• Chromatic aberration confocal microscope CT-100 – CYBER TECHNOLOGIES;
• Confocal microscope: ALICONA Infinite Focus;
• X-ray diffractometer: Malvern Panalytical Empyrean;
• CT machine: Zeiss Metronotom 800.

Chemical Analysis

• Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen analyzer;
• Carbon and Sulfur analyzer;
• Spark Optical Emission Spectrometer;
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer;
• Inductive Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer;
• Inductive Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer;
• X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer.