Our equipment

Additive Manufacturing Machines (Printers)

Name	Details
Renishaw AM400 with RBV	Laser powder bed fusion printer equipped with reduced build volume for rapid trials of small parts. 400 W of peak power. Build volume of 250 mm × 250 mm × 300 mm. Multiple material types can be interchanged
Renishaw AM250	Laser powder bed fusion printer focusing on iron-based alloys. 250 W of peak power. Build volume of 250 mm × 250 mm × 300 mm. Multiple material types can be interchanged
Liburdi LAWS 500™ Laser Welding System	Laser-based wirefeed directed energy deposition (DED) system
Custom LPBF Machine	Built in the lab. 6000 W (peak power) pulsed NdYAG laser, Max speed of 1000 mm/min.
Wire directed energy deposition machine	Wire DED machine with laser as energy source
CSC MIG AM Printer	Controlled-Short-Circuiting Metal-Inert-Gas welding based additive manufacturing machine
Extrusion based printer	A CNC controlled extrusion based printer
Makerbot Replicator 2	Polymer 3D printer to build parts from a 3D model

Powder Production and Processing Equipments

Name	Details
Tekna TEKSPHERO spheroidization reactor	Enable powder spheroidization
Union Process Type B HD01 cryomill	Small 1 L vessel for mechanical alloying and grain size reduction under cryogenic temperatures
Union Process Type B IS fully automated cryomill	Automated 5.65 L vessel. For mechanical alloying and grain size reduction under cryogenic temperatures.
Russell FInex MS400 Powder sieving stations - 2 nos	Used to ensure the correct product quality of powders is achieved by removing oversize contamination

Powder Characterising Equipments

Name	Details
Granudrum	Granular material flow analyzer
Granuflow	Laboratory silo that combines a stainless‐steel cell of 500 mL capacity and a rotating plate with 7 different holes with diameters from 1 to 38 mm for powder characterization
Hall and Carney Flow Meters	ASTM standard flow meters for measuring flowability
Freeman Technology FT4 powder rheometer	Powder rheometer to characterise the rheology of powders, or powder flow properties.
Additional equipments	We have access to a Laser Particle Size Analyser, and Dynamic Vapour Sorption equipment within the department for further characterization

Furnaces

Name	Details
MRF F-14x14x14-MM-1600-VT-G-HMI front loading high vacuum and inert gas furnace	Up to 1600 °C
Lindberg tube vacuum furnace	Vacuum (1E-5 torr), and up to 1200 °C
Lindberg box furnace	Up to 1100 °C
Across International TF1400 tube furnace	Up to 1400 °C
Carbolite STF 15-450 tube furnace	Up to 1500 °C
Thermo Scientific F21100 horizontal tube furnace	Up to 1200 °C

Thermal Characterization Equipment

Name	Details
Perkin Elmer DSC 8500	Differential Scanning Calorimeter
Netzsch STA 449 F3 Jupiter	Simultaneous Thermal Analyser - DSC+TGA or DTA+TGA
Linseis Induction dilatometer	Used for thermocycle testing, max temperature 1100°C
Netzsch Laser Flash Apparatus (LFA) 427	Employed to determine the thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity of materials

Sample Preparation Equipment

Name	Details
Buehler Isomet Low Speed Saw	Diamond wheel cutter for sectioning of small samples and fine cuts.
Buehler VibroMet 2 polisher	For final polishing of metallographic samples
Struers TenuPol-5 polisher	Used to prepare SEM and TEM samples
Additional equipments	We have access to multiple automated and/or manual, grinding and polishing facilities within the department.

Residual Stress Testing Equipment

Name	Details
Pulstec µ-X360 residual stress analyzer	Measures the residual stress in metallic surfaces, using X-ray
Bruker D8 Discover XRD	Bruker D8 Discover XRD with capabilities for residual stress measurement is available within the department

Mechanical Characterization Equipment

Name	Details
TA Instruments TMA Q400	Thermo Mechanical Analyzer
Nanoimpact machine	Dynamic mechanical analysis
DEA Mistral 7.7.5 coordinate measurement machine (CMM)	Measures the geometry of physical objects with a precision under 5 μm
Universal Mfg. 2FDF Fatigue Ductility Flex Tester	Measure the flexural fatigue life for any given bend radius
Additional equipments	We have a variety of additional mechanical testing equipment including but not limited to hardness testers, and universal testing machines available withing the department.