Mechanical Behaviour Laboratory
Mechanical Behaviour Laboratory
The Mechanical behaviour laboratory offers a fully equipped destructive and non-destructive mechanical testing facility available for testing metals, composites, ceramics, and polymers. The laboratory allows examination of various real-life conditions and parameters that affect material strength and durability due to stress, fatigue, fracture and corrosion. The laboratory contains state-of-the-art testing equipment, and is used for education, fundamental and industry-led research.
Responsible Technicians: Dr. Ton Riemslag, senior technician, Elise Renton, mechanical nehaviour lab, Raymond Dekker, mechanical and thermo-mechanical behaviour labs.
Elise Reinton
Raymond Dekker
Key Equipment:
•1kN to 20kN Biaxial (Torsion) Dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA)
•25kN Thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF)
•350kN Servo hydraulic fatigue and fracture machine
•Various static testing machines
•Temperature-assisted (-190oC to 1000oC) testing (upto 350kN)
•In-situ mechanical testing under hydrogen or corrosion environment (high pressure gas and electrochemical)
•Potential drop for crack initiation and growth (DCPD and ACDP)
•Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy (for H, O, N)
•Hydrogen permeation via DS cell
•Potentiostat
•Rotational bending fatigue
•Instrumented Charpy Impact toughness
•In-situ SEM micromechanical tester
•Hardness machines
•Plastometry-based local indentation
•Digital image correlation (DIC) measurements
•Non-contact video extensometers
•Crack Opening Displacement (COD)
•Various Furnaces
•Wear resistant setup
•Sand blasting for surface treatment
•Portable deep freezer
