ENAC quality certificate, according to UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017
Scope: Corrosion resistance in neutral salt spray atmospheres, UNE-EN ISO 9227:2017, except annexes C and D
Certificate number: 380/LE807 Rev. 15
Responsible: Maria Victoria Utrilla Esteban Address: c/ Tulipán s/n. Mostoles 28933 Department: Department of Materials Science and Engineering Phone: 91 488 4578 / 7160 Website: http://licam-urjc.webnode.es/ |
Essays/Services offered
Those reflected in the rates
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)