Laboratories
Synthesis Facilities
General Purpose
Heat Treatment/Sintering Facilities
General Purpose
Characterization Facilities
General Purpose
Mechanical Testing Facilities
General Purpose
Other Major Facilities
General Purpose
Synthesis Facilities
The department has several melting, PVD and chemical synthesis facilities for making a variety of alloys, inorganic materials, powder metallurgy components.
- Vacuum arc melting - VEC solutions, Bangalore
- Vacuum induction melting - VEC solutions, Bangalore
- Arc melting/suction casting - VEC solutions, Bangalore
- Melt-spinning - Custom made
- DC Magnetron sputtering - Vacuum industries Pvt. Ltd.
- Ball mill - Retsch MM500, Mixer Mill
- Vacuum hot pressing - VB ceramics, Chennai
- Plasma arc melter - Custom made, 2.5 Kg capacity
- Hammer mill - Ikon Instruments
Heat Treatment/Sintering Facilities
Most metallurgical processes require various kinds of heat treatment for better properties. The following heat treatment facilities are currently present in the department.
- Autoclave - Amar equipments Pvt. Ltd.
- Vacuum microwave furnace - Omicron Scientific Equipment, Model: 160021
- Vacuum heat treatment tubular furnace - Custom made
- Electropulsing machine - Custom made
Characterization Facilities
Understanding the microstructural aspects of a material is key to analyzing the properties of any material. In this regard, characterization facilities ranging from optical to high end electron microscopes are present in the department.
- XRD - Panalytical Empyrean
- Tabletop XRD - Rigaku Miniflex 600
- Optical microscope - Leica DM 1750 M
- Scanning electron microscope - Quanta 200F
- Transmission electron microscope - Tecnai G2T20
- Differential thermal analysis - Netzsch DSC 404 F3 Pegasus
- Gas chromatography - Nucan 5700
- Drop calorimeter - MHTC 96 Line EVO
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer - ELICO – SL 168
Mechanical Testing Facilities
A diverse range of testing facilities are available in the department to measure mechanical properties like strength, ductility, fatigue life etc.
- Universal Testing Machine - Instron 100 kN
- Corrosion Fatigue Machine - MTSTM Landmark Servo hydraulic
- Fatigue Machine - MTS 50 kN
- Pin on Disc Wear - Magnum Engineers, Bangalore
- Ultrasonic Shotpeening - Sonats
- Instrumented Indentation - AntonPaar
- Rolling Mill - HILLE
- Impression Creep Testing - Spranktronics
- Izod Impact Testing - W & T Avery Ltd.
Other Major Facilities
Apart from the mechanical property measurement set-ups, the department also possesses facilities to perform cell culture as well as corrosion studies.
- CO2 incubator - Thermo scientific
- Hot corrosion set-up - Two zone tube furnace
- Wire EDM - Expresscut EX-2530