Materials and Characterization

• Differential Scanning Calorimetry

• Thermal Mechanical Analysis

• Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis

• Rheometric Analysis

• Infrared Spectroscopy

• Anton Paar Multiwave 3000 Microwave Reaction System

• Microscopy - Optical and SEM

• Raman Microscopy

Materials Processing

• Dedicated lay-up room

• Cold room (Viessmann FS 1800 SE-213)

• Automatic ply cutter (Lectra Vector TechTex FX)

• Autoclave (LBBC Technologies TC1000 HTHP)

• Quickstep (Quickstep Technologies Pty Ltd QS5)

• Hot press (Dr Collin GmbH P300P/M)

• Vacuum press (Elkom GmbH Vakutherm)

• Oven facilities

• Resin transfer moulding (RTM) facilities

Mechanical and Impact Testing

• Tensile

• Compression

• Shear

• Torsion

• Biaxial

• Flexural

• Fatigue

• Impact and Ballistic

• Strain Analysis

Non Destructive Evaluation

• X-Ray Tomography

• Ultrasonic C-Scan

• Portable Phased Array Ultrasonic Examination

• Hand Held Ultrasonic NDT System

• Borescope (6mm diameter, 3m length)

• Active Pulsed Thermography System

• Laser Shearography System

Textiles

• 3D weaving

• CNC controlled braiding

• Robotic dry fibre placement

• Multineedle stitching and tufting

• Robotic complex winding

• 9-axis

• Carbon fibre weaving

• Glass fibre weaving