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Innovation enhancing performance

Research centre with ISO 9001 certification


Structured around project teams


A full range of skills


Department

Activities

Main equipments

Properties

Contact fatigue, tribology, mechanical fatigue and residual stresses, fatigue corrosion and microstrutures

Diffractometer,tensile and impact testing equipment

Metallurgy

Phase transformation, structural inspection, thermal and thermochemical analysis, product appraisal, heat treatments, etc ...

Dilatometers, heat treatment ovens, SEM with EDS analysis, furnace for small melts

Product forming

Forging processes, machinability

Presses and torsion benches for forging, lathes, milling machines

Simulation & calculations

Modelling of the shaping, solidification, optimisation, rheology, heat treatments and metallurgy

Simulation software (Systus, Ideas, Forge 2 & 3, Lam 3

Investigations

Physical and statistical investigations methods, non-destructive testing

MEB, image analyses, ultrasound tanks