Equipment

CIEFMA has access to a large number of scientific instruments, located in the group's own laboratories, as well as in the microscope center of the department and in the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering. The main research facilities are:

Mechanical Characterization Equipment

Three servo-hydraulic universal testing machines equipped to perform a wide variety of tests from temperatures of -200 ° C to 1300 ° C (10 kN, 100 kN).
Two electromechanical machines for static and quasi-static testing from room temperature up to 1400 ° C (100 kN).
Electromechanical machine of static and quasi-static microassay up to 1 kN.
Resonance machine for cyclic tests at frequencies up to 300 Hz and temperatures up to 1200 ºC
Nanoindenter for the evaluation of mechanical properties at small scales and thin layers. Loads: 10N-10uN,minimum penetration depth < 10nm.
Tribometer 1 N- 1000 N, temperatures up to 150 ° C and tests on liquids.
Scratch Testing (CSM Instruments Revetest Scratch Tester).
Calowear.
Impulse excitation technique
Brinel, Vickers, Knoop, Rockwell Hardness testers

Microstructural Characterization Equipment

Optical microscopes (stereoscopic and metallographic)
Confocal laser microscope (LSCM) for 3D image acquisition
Long-range optical microscope for observation of in situ fissure deformation and propagation mechanisms
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) X-ray Diffractometer
Focused Ion Beam (FIB) microscope
Three scanning electron microscopes (SEM)
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
Confocal Raman Microscope
microCT
Optical profilometer
Interferometer
IR spectroscopy
UV-VIS spectroscopy
XPS
NMR
Magnetic Coercitivity

Equipment for Material Processing

Uniaxial and isostatic press
Furnaces up to 1600 ° C in controlled atmosphere
Rheometer
Robocasting for ceramic materials
Mixers and Mills
Spray drier
Spin Coater & Dip Coater
Sand Blaster
Laser System for Surface Patterning
Equipment for metallographic preparation