We are users of the high pressure Cold Spray system (Impact Innovations 6/11) equipped with ABB IRB4600 Robot installed at the DynAM Lab and have access to the numerous shared facilities of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Politecnico di Milano.
Some of Archès Lab's specific equipment are:
It allows accurate observations of microstructural changes under controlled mechanical load, crack growth, delamination phenomenae, etc.
Possible loading conditions are tensile, compressive, three- and four-point bending.
MINI FP2 is a fatigue testing machine that implements a breakthrough approach, based on specimen miniaturization and cyclic plane bending loading.
MINI FP2 operation is programmed and monitored via the MINI FP controller, a purpose-developed software that allows to test setup and monitoring and data acquisition.
Ultrasonic Shot Peening process differs from Conventional Shot Peening
by the way the kinetic energy is given to the media. Instead of using a constant air flow, gravity or a high-speed rotation of a turbine, USP is using the acceleration of a vibrating surface.
This technique can be used as a post-processing surface technique and also for severe plastic deformation-based nanocrystallization.
HiWatch HR2 is the system for most accurate particle size measurement while also measuring the particle velocity up to 2000 m/s and the plume density in the measuring area.
It is best suited for research and development of cold spray processes but can also be used for daily production monitoring and quality control.
Anton Paar’s Step 501 platform combines scratch testing, instrumented indentation testing, and automated conventional hardness across a wide range of forces. Equipped with an anti-vibration table, this platform enables a series of mechanical tests from the nanometer to the micrometer scale with high positioning accuracy (<1 µm) over a significant length. This system is used for hardness, elastic modulus, splat and coating adhesion, scratch resistance, and can be adapted to many other surface mechanical characterizations.