The following equipment can be hired for external use.

Measurement Equipment:

• KEMCO CMM 400E coordinate measurement machine.

• Instron 100kN servo-hydraulic tensile-compression-fatigue testing machine, with 5,50,100,250kN load cells, & temperature chamber.

• Instron 250kN servo-hydraulic tensile-compression-fatigue testing machine, with 5,50,100,250kN load cells, temperature chamber, and Wave matric & Bluehill software.

• Hounsfield H50KS screw-drive materials testing machine, with 50,10,1,0.1kN load cells.

• Lloyd 6000S universal materials testing machine.

• Zwich Roell combined torsion/tensile/compression testing machine with high-speed video recording facility.

• Rosand high strain-rate impact tester with High-speed digital camera & datat acquisition.

Machining Equipment:

• HAAS Tl2 CNC lathe

• HURCO VM1 CNC milling machine

• HURCO VM3 CNC milling machine

• Diode laser for surface treatment & laser assisted machining

• Agie Charmilles Form 20 ECM die sinker

• YAG Star Cut 150 solid-state laser profile cutter

This is a large, modern, well equipped, well staffed machine shop with computer-integrated 2-D and 3-D profiling capability, solid-state and diode laser facilities for combined machining and surface heat treatment, as well as a full suite of machine tools. Detailed list of equipment is as follows:

• CNC Lathe + Diode Laser (Hembrug Super Mikrocut CNC
• YAG Laser -solid state- (Star Cut 150)
• HAAS TL2 CNC Lathe
• HURCO VM1 CNC Milling Machine
• HURCO VM3 CNC Milling Machine
• Agie Charmilles Form 20 EDM Machine
• AC Portable Crane
• Rapidor Horizontal Power Saw(Excel 10 Bandsaw)
• Arboga Pedestal Tool Grinder
• Ajax Radial Drilling Machine
• Peddinghaus 4.RRI8 Guillotine
• Waltons BSRI3I5O Sheet Metal Roller
• Denbigh 4 Hand Press
• Jakobsen Surface Grinder(Equitop ESG 2A 618 Surface Grinder)
• Colchester Mastiff 1400 Lathe
• Pal Universal Vertical Milling Machine(Two of Emill machines)
• Jones & Shipman Precision Cylindrical Grinder
• Waltons Sheet Metal Guillotine
• Waltons Sheet Metal Bending Machine
• Microcut 873 Milling Machine
• Ajax Cleveland, Universal Milling Machine
• AB Arboga Maskiner double grinder (Pedestal)
• Broach Press
• 2 off Colchester (Student 2500) Lathes
• 2 off Ajax Pedestal Drilling Machine
• Band Saw (Inca 500) (Excel KV 100)
• March MKII Tool & Cutter Grinder
• Oxy Acetylene Welding Kit
• ESAB (DEB 275 Square Wave ACIDC)Welding Plant
• Miller Dialare Welding Plant
• Miller 20 Series Mig/Tig/MA Welding Plant
• Murex Tradesman 251 Mig Welding Plant
• Mac Special 280M Bandsaw

The metrology and metallography facilities enable advanced preparation and analysis procedures to be carried out. Please call for further information.

• KEMCO CMM 400E
• Taylor/Hobson Form Talysurf and PC
• Talysurf 10
• Chapman MP200 Laser Surface Profiler
• UBM Microfocus Laser Profilometer
• Mitutoye PJ 300 profile Projector
• Helios Digital Height Gauge
• 2x CI Surface Block 
• 1x Granite Surface Block 
• 1x Mitutoye Microscope
• 1x Set Angle Blocks
• 2x Sets Roller Gauges 
• 1x Slip Gauges 
• Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Supplier: Bruker  
• Confocal Optical Microscope VHX-5000- Supplier: Keyence 
• White-Light Interferometer NPFLEX - Supplier: Bruker 
• Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) VideoCheck HA - Supplier: Werth 

• Nikon Optiphot microscope, together with camera, CCTV and video printer.
• Buehler Omnimet II Automatic Image Analyser.
• Richart Projector Microscope 
• Stereoscopic Microscope.
• Coating equipment for SEM samples.
• Guiner X-Ray diffractometer.
• Wilson Hardness 523T for regular and ‘superficial’ hardness tests.
• Wilson Tukon Micro Hardness Tester 
• Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), TEM and Probe – access on campus.
• Buehler Power Met II - Automatic Cut-off machine.
• Buehler Supernet - Power Grinder.
• 2 x Mounting Presses – Automatic Pneumet II.
• Grinding/Polishing equipment.
• Microware tester Struers calibrated Abrapol.
• Portable Metallographic preparation kit.
• Micro Abrasive Jet Machine - Supplier: Crystal-Mark/Roland - Non-conventional sand-blaster 
• Electropolishing system - Supplier: CorrTest 
• Solid Electrolyte Electropolishing machine 

There is a suite of state-of-the art testing machines for carrying out the full range of mechanical property tests from advanced accelerated life-cycle fatigue tests to simple hardness testing. A full list of equipment is as follows:

• Instron 250kN servo-hydraulic materials testing machine
• Instron 100kN servo-hydraulic materials testing machine
• Instron 5kN 4x station servo-hydraulic materials testing machine
• Load cells: 5,50,100,250kN dynamic 
• Temperature chamber (-70C to 200C)
• Wave matrix and Bluehill software for the 250kn Instron
• Hounsfield H50KS (screw drive) materials testing machine 
• Load cells: 50,10,1,0.1kN
• Universal Testing, Lloyd 6000S
• Rosand high strain rate impact test machine. (25kg @ 4.4M/s freefall and 7kg @16M/s accelerated), high speed digital camera (2000 frames/s) 2x PC and data acquisition.
• Zwich Roell combined torsion/tensile/compression test machine with video extens
• Vickers Hardness Tester
• Brinell Hardness Tester
• Rockwell hardness Tester
• 2 x Charpy Impact Testers
• 2 x General Purpose Furnaces 
• Portable Hardness Tester 
• NDT Equipment- Ultrasonic, Eddycurrent, Penetrant
• Lloyd LR30 K Tensile Test Machine
• Houndsfield H20K-W Tensile Test Machine
• Pin-on-disk wear tester Neo-Tribo MFW120 - Supplier: Neoplus

• Harvard Qaulivac Vacuum Oven
• Struers Disopan –TS Cutter.
• Fritsch Analysette 3E Crusher
• Mettler AE 260 Balance
• Decon FS3006 Ultrasonic Bath
• Memmert Oven
• Powerpoint Freezer
• Novum Freezer
• Vacuum System
• Radiation Detector 
• Spectrometer
• Optical Emission Spectrometer OBLF, calibrated for all ferrous, all copper alloys, all aluminum alloys. 

X-ray set (140kV), together with associated equipment and film processing accessories.

• Balancing Machine
• Derritron TW1500 Power Amplifier
• Derritron VP30 Shaker
• Feedback Test Wave Generator
• Feedback Variable Phase Oscillator
• Feedback Servo Rig P5150 
• Feedback Process Trainer PT326
• Feedback Process Simulator PCS327
• Bruel & Kjaer
• Sound Lever Meter, Level Recorder, Graphic Printer
• Accelerometers Set
• Transducers:
• Capacitative, Magnetic, Force, Impact Hammer.
• Microphones, Sound Intensity Probes, Piston Phone Set.
• Homeg Frequency Counter.
• Pre Amplifiers
• Accelerometer Calibrators
• Measuring Amplifiers
• Sine/Random Generator
• Heterodune Slave Filter, Level Recorder, Audio Frequency Analyser, Frequency Analyser, Band Pass Filter, Stilain Gauge Amplifier, Noise Level Analyzer-statistical processor, Motion Analyser, Automatic Vibration Exciter Controller

• TTG (Twin Turret Grinder) Precision Grinding Machine - Supplier: Cranfield Precision - Special precision grinding machine
• Ultra-Precision Multi Axis Freeform Generator Freeform L(single-point diamond turning and milling) - Supplier: Ametek-Precitec (delivery imminent) - Special ultra-precision machine
• Micro Electric Discharge Machine EM203 - Supplier: SmalTec -Non-conventional precision machine