Furnace room containing a collection of 26 high temperature (1300-1700°C) furnaces, including tube and box conventional type as well as microwave and hybrid examples.
Facilities
Furnace room
Advanced Materials Laboratories
Our Advanced Materials Research Laboratories include a bespoke suite of spaces, including those for: polymer and composite synthesis and processing; ceramic processing; advanced testing and degradation studies, and; materials characterisation.
Facilities include:
- Ballistic testing
- Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar
- Gas Gun - Sabre Ballistics single stage light gas gun 7.62mm calibre
- Equal Channel Angular Pressing Rig
- Laboratory-scale dynamometer
- Customised pin-on-disc tribometer
- Electrophoresis deposition (EPD) for coating manufacture
- Fibre-ceramics composite preform manufacture
- Furnace facilities (with and without controlled atmospheres)
- Tube furnaces
- Box furnaces
- Microwave furnaces
- Hybrid microwave/conventional furnaces
- State-of-the-art facilities for sample preparation to enable advanced analysis
360 Degree views of our facilities
Research laboratory housing processing and testing equipment used by metals and ceramics researchers, including a Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar, Equal Channel Angular Pressing Rig and Grinding and polishing facilities.