| Manufacturing Research Facilities |
| Mori Seiki NMV1500 5-axis CNC milling centre with 60,000 RPM spindle and automatic work changer.(Awarded
as part of the MTTRF project.) |
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| Esprit 2013 -
CAD/CAM Software (Awarded as part of the MTTRF project) |
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| Laserline 3kW High Power Diode Laser |
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| StarDrill/Cut 150 Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser System |
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| Hembrug Super-Mikroturn CNC Turning Centre |
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| Grinding of 200mm Silicon Wafers and
other Semiconductor Substrates |
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| HURCO VM1 (3-axis) and VM3 (4-axis) Vertical Machining
Centres |
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| Ultimaker 1 3D Printers.
FDM printing with 10um layer resolution up to 20 microns and travel
speeds up to 350mm/s |
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| HAAS TL2 CNC Lathe |
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GF AgieCharmilles Form 20 Die Sinking
Electro Discharge Machining System
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| Fujifilm Prescale Pressure Mapping
Film |
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| Lloyd LR30K Uniaxial Testing Machine |
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| VarioCAM hr research 780, Thermal
Imaging Camera |
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| OPTEL UG-SA 600W Ultrasonic Generator |
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| Kistler 3 and 4 Component Force Sensors |
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Characterisation Equipment |
| FEI Field Emission Scanning Electron
Microscope |
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| Atomic Force Micrcope |
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| Phillips Glancing Angle X Ray
Diffraction System |
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| Spectroscopic Ellipsometer |
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| DataPhysics Contact Angle measurement system- surface energy. |
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| Rockwell hardness tester |
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| Veeco Optical profilometer – surface roughness measurement |
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| Olympus metallurgical microscope &
stereo microscope. |
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| Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR)
Spectroscopy |
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Pin-on-Disk system – friction and wear tester
Scratch adhesion tester (above)
Pin-on-disc wear tester (below) |
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| Ball and cratering device – coating thickness |
| Erosive wheel tester |
| Sand abrasion system |
| Glancing angle XRD – crystalline phase identification |
| Lenton tube furnace – thermal stability studies |
| Microhardness tester |
| Vickers hardness tester |
