Integrated Materials Characterization Laboratory (LICAM)

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Our Team

Director: Maria Victoria Utrilla Esteban

Quality manager: Pilar Rodrigo Herrero

Area Managers: 

• Corrosion and Degradation Area: Mª Dolores López González
• Mechanical Testing Area: Xoan Xosé Fernández Sánchez-Romate
• Microstructural Characterization Area: Mª Dolores Escalera Rodríguez
• Laboratory Technicians: Ana Aragón Martín

Available equipment

Mechanical testing area

• INSTRON biaxial servohydraulic fatigue machine, model 8874. Axial capacity 25 kN and torsional capacity 100 Nm
• ZWICK/ROELL Z100 universal testing machine, 100kN, with class resolution 0,5 kN. Mechanical tensile tests at 0°, 90°, ± 45°, flexion, interlaminar shear, compression, GIC and GIIC).
• Ibertest STIB-200W universal machine load cell from 10kN to 250kN. Ibertest bending bridge, compression plates, folding device; set of traction heads (max. 20 kN); extensometer 12 mm
• Ibertest 3000 kN compression testing machine
• Innovatest Falcon 508 microhardness tester, 1gf - 31.25kgf. Manual XY table with displacement: 25x25mm, scale 0,01mm, max load 100 kg.
• VICKERS SHIMADZU HMV-2T microhardness tester with loads from HV0,01 to HV 2
• DMA Q800 dynamo-mechanical analysis equipment, temperature range -150 °C to 600 °C. Force from 0,0001 to 18 N. Heating speed 0,1 to 20 °C/min, cooling 0,1 to 10 °C/min.
• TMA Q400 thermo-mechanical analysis equipment. T range -150°C to 1000°C.

Corrosion and degradation area

• Salt fog corrosion chamber Weisstechnick Salt Event (Weisstechnik) Pressure (0-2,5) bar; max volume 504 l. T range, ambient up to 50°C
• Dycometal CCK-81 climate chamber; T (-25 to 150) °C; RH (15-98) %
• Dycometal CCK125 climate chamber; T (0-70) °C; RH (15-98) %
• WEISS WKL 100 climate chamber: T (- 40 to +180) ° C; RH (10-98) % within range of (10-95) °C
• Potentiostat / Galvanostat, Autolab model PGSTAT302N. Maximum current 2 A, available voltage ± 10V, Intensity 1 A-10 nA. Module for impedance measurements model FRA32M. Maximum bandwidth 1 MHz
• Linn High Term thermal shock furnace Up to 1150°C
• Thermal shock furnace with elevator, LENTON (UK.), model EHF 16/3. Maximum working T 1600 °C. T PID controller, Eurotherm 3216P1 model, with 10 programs and 8 programming segments. Heating chamber dimensions: 3,4 liters (150 mm. x 190 mm.). Power: 4 kW
• Naberthem controlled atmosphere tubular furnace with high vacuum up to 1500 °C
• CARBOLITE STF 15/75/610 Tubular Furnace up to 1500 °C

Microstructural and thermal characterization area

• Labotom-3 Struers slicer
• Accutom 5 Struers Micro Cutter
• BUEHLER Isomet 4000 Microcutter
• Buehler polisher, ecomet 250
• Stuers Labopol-5 Polisher
• Buehler Phoenix beta polisher
• Struers / Labopress-1 stuffer
• Leica / S6P 6,3X-40X Magnifier
• Leica Optical Microscope / DMR Reflected and transmitted light. Illumination in bright field, dark field and polarized light. From 100X to 1600X. - LAS V4.5 image analysis software
• Leica/ RM 2265 microtome Section thickness range: 1,0-60,0 µm
• Setaram Setsys 16/18 TGA-ATD simultaneous thermobalance (Tmax 1600 °C)
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) TA DSC25 (- 60 °C to 500 °C)

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