Infrastructure Facilities

• Titanium Metal Extraction
• Melting and Casting
• Processing
• Materials Structure and Texture Characterisation Tools

• Mechanical Property Characterisation
• Magnetic Property Characterisation
• Non-Destructive Testing Facilities
• Simulation and Modelling Melting andCastingand Modelling

• Vacuum Arc Furnaces
• Air/Vacuum/Inert Atmosphere Induction Melting Furnaces

• Investment Casting facilities with Directional Solidification Capabilities

• Vacuum Hot Press
• Multi-purpose Forge Press
• Rotary Swaging Press
• Isothermal Forging/Extrusion
• Cold and Hot Isostatic Press
• Hot/Cold Rolling Mill
• Stretching Machine
• Straightening Machine
• Rapid Prototyping Machine

• Spex Mill
• Controlled Environment Sintering Furnace
• Rapid Solidification
• Vacuum Brazing Furnace
• Friction Welding Facility
• Electro Slag Refining
• Laser Processing, including Laser Engineered Net Shaping
• Plasma Spray Coating Facilities

• Optical/Stereo Microscopes
• Scanning Electron Microscopes
• Transmission Electron Microscopes
• High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope
• Atom Probe Field Ion Microscope
• Electron Probe Micro Analysers
• Small and Wide Angle X-Ray Spectroscopy (SWAXS)
• X-ray Diffractometer
• Texture Goniometer
• Wet and Instrumental Analysis facilities such as AES, ICP, XRF

• Mossbauer Spectrometer
• Plasma Emission Spectromeer
• Polygraphic Analytical system
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Differential Thermal Analyser
• Thermogravimetric Analyser
• Dilatometer
• BET
• Laser particle size analyser
• Molten Alloy Viscometer

• Nanoindentation with AFM
• Universal Testing Systems
• Servo hydraulic systems for Fatigue and Fracture studies
• High Frequency Electromagnetic Resonance Fatigue Testing Machine

• Creep testing facilities
• Ultra High Velocity Gas Gun facility
• Instrumented Impact Testing System
• Sliding Wear and Solid Particle erosion test system

Mechanical Property Characterisation

• Vibrating Sample Magnetometer
• Hysterisis loop recorder

Non-Destructive Testing Facilities

• Radiography
• Ultrasonics

• Work Stations and High End PCs
• 8 nodes Cluster Computing / Grid Computing Facility
• ANSYS-8.0
• GENSA-3.2
• IDEAS-6.0
• AutoCAD – Desktop-2000

• MATLAB
• AutoDyn
• DEFORM
• Pro-E
• UniGraphics

Vacuum Melt Spinner

;Vacuum:<1X 10-5 mbar

Melting: Induction melting 30 kW RF

Substrate: 300 mm dia X 40mm wide copper wheel

· Wheel rotation speed: 400-4000 rpm

Vacuum Melting and Casting Facility

Capacity: 25 Kg Ni based alloys

Vacuum: < 10-4 mm

Speciality: Directional solidification of Ni based superalloys

Hydraulic Forge Press

Modes of operation: Open Die, Closed Die, Closed Die-isotherma

Extrusion and Liquid Metal Forging Capacity: 2000 MT

Stroke: 1000 m, Table size: 1500 x 1500 mm

Speed: 0.1 – 115 mm/s, Max

Die temperature: 950 °C

Billet Heating: 1400 °C

Controlled Stretching Machine

Use: Controlled stretching of heat treatable aluminium alloys for property improvement and stress relief

Stretching force: 10-250 MT

Stroke: 1400 mm

Stretching speed: 1-6 mm/s

Semiproduct size limits: 750 mm plates, 10-40 mm dia rods

Laboratory Hot Isostatic Press

Capacity: Pressure 2000 bar / 200 MPa

Max temp: 2000 °C

Power : 51 kVA

Vacuum Arc Melting Facility

Capacity: 40kg of titanium ingot

Power: 200kVA

Rapid Prototyping Machine

Use: To build complex geometry prototypes without requirement of hard tooling

Build Volume: 250 x 250 x 400 mm

Part Materials: Wax, ABS

3D Atom Probe

Capability: chemical information at atomic level in metals. Combines field ion microscope (FIM) with position sensitive detector (PSD) with mass spectrometer with single atom sensitivity

Nano Indenter with Nanoscratch Tester and Atomic Force Microscope

Instrumented depth sensing hardness tester

Load range – 0.5mN to 100 Mn

Max depth – 20micron

Laser Coordinate Measuring Machine

Use: non contact measurement of part dimensions

Part size limit: 500 x 400 x 400 mm

Measurement accuracy: 25 µm each axis