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The Creep/Stress Rupture Tester is used for evaluating creep properties of various materials both in tension and compression modes.

The diamond saw is used for precision cutting of metal samples using 4” diamond wafering blades with 5/8” holes.

Category: FSW machines

A solid-state joining process, Friction stir welding creates extremely high-quality, high-strength joints with low distortion. 

The Buehler-Wilson autohardness tester is capable of indenting and measuring the hardness of a prepared sample - automatically.

Category: FSW machines

Aconity3D MIDI is an L-PBFAM machine equipped with coaxial pyrometer and coaxial high-speed CMOS for process monitoring and high temperature preheating of up to 1200 ⁰C.

Used in our research to make mini tensile, mini fatigue, small compression, DSC, ASTM tear toughness, ASTM tensile samples in Al, Mg, steel, Ti, an

A custom-built computer controlled mini-tensile testing system is shown in the figure above.

COMSOL is a finite element analysis software capable of simulating problems involving multiphysics phenomena.

Category: Heat treatment

This combined equipment setup will allow studies of magnetic field effects during solid state deformation and phase transformation up to magnetic field strength of 3 Tesla.

The Allied M-PREP 5TM manual grinder/polisher

 

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