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Research centre with ISO
9001 certification |
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Structured around project teams |
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A full range of skills |
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Activities |
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Main equipments |
| Properties |
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Contact fatigue, tribology, mechanical fatigue and residual stresses, fatigue corrosion and microstructures
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Diffractometer,
tensile and impact testing equipment |
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| Metallurgy |
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Phase
transformation, structural inspection, thermal and thermochemical
surface treatments, chemistry, structural and inclusional
metallurgy, chemical analysis, product appraisal, heat
treatments, etc. |
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Dilatometers,
heat treatment ovens, SEM with EDS analysis, furnace for
small melts |
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| Product
forming |
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Forging
processes, machineability |
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Presses
and torsion benches for forging, lathes, milling machines |
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| Simulation
& calculations |
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Modelling
of the shaping, solidification, optimisation, rheology,
heat treatments and metallurgy |
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Simulation
software (Systus, Ideas, Forge 2 & 3, Lam 3) |
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| Investigations |
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Physical
and statistical investigation methods, non-destructive
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MEB,
image analyses, ultrasound tanks |
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