Research Laboratories and Facilities

Engineering research is supported by well equipped laboratories and workshops and a highly skilled team of support staff.  There is a major off-campus facility for large scale research projects.

The use of resources by external collaborators from industry is encouraged and enquiries are invited.

Special facilities include:

advanced computer controlled welding systems
state of the art robots and automation systems
high speed data acquisition
high speed video and cine cameras
3kW diode laser
welding fume measurement system
scanning electron microscopes
electron back scattering diffraction unit
transmission electron microscope
atomic force microscope
x-ray diffraction
optical microscopy and metallography
mechanical testing
micro indentation system
hardness testing
GLEEBLE thermomechnical simulator
thermal analysis suite (DSC, dilatometry, DTA)
high tempertature laser confocal microscope
plasma nitriding system
filtered arc deposition system
wear testing machines
10kW gyrotron for microwave processing
chemo-mechanical synthesis equipment
refractory testing
high temperature sessile drop measurement equipment
Hille rolling mills
ultra high vacuum pulsed laser deposition (UHV-PLD) system
terahertz facility
magnetic properties and physical properties measurement systems (MPMS and PPMS)
ICP-OES Spectrometer for chemical analysis
electron beam evaporation facility with XPS, auger, x-ray modules
high resolution SEM/EBL system
high magnetic field materials processing and characterization system
large scale cylindrical triaxial apparatus with dynamic actuator (300 mm in diameter)
large scale cyclic prismoidal triaxial rig with unrestrained sides (600x600x800 mm)
large scale consolidatometer (650 mm in diameter for soft soil testing)
GDS controlled triaxial apparatus
cyclic filtration apparatus (240 mm in diameter)
500kN instron universal testing machine
Large capacity drop hammer machines
California instruments 30 kVA programmable arbitrary waveform generator
power quality analysers (Kioki 3196 Power Quality analyser, Dranetz-BMI PowerXplorer PX5)
Voltech PM3000 universal power analyser
PMM 7000 emission precompliance system and PMM L3-64 three-phase 64 A articial mains network
Small-Strain Hollow Cylinder Apparatus
Cyclic simple shear apparatus
Unsaturated triaxial apparatus
Static/cyclic triaxial apparatus
Back pressure shear box apparatus
GDS cyclic process simulation apparatus
Ring shear apparatus
High Pressure Triaxial Apparatus
Large-scale direct shear apparatus
Scanning electron microscope with EDXS
Field emission gun scanning electron microscope with EDXS and EBSD
These are the different ones
Texture goniometer
ENG Manu
Dustability testing via AS4156 and I.S. EN15051
Simulation research hub comprising 8-core workstations
Large-scale direct shear tester with variable shear rate and displacement
Arching and flow rate indicizers
Treatment Planning Systems for Radiation Therapy (Pinnacle, Eclipse and HDR brachytherapy)
Nuclear spectroscopy shielded room for radiation detectors investigation
Characterization facilities for semiconductor and scintillator based radiation detectors
Computer cluster for Monte Carlo radiation transport simulations (GEANT, EGS, Beam, Pinnacle, MCNP)
Electronic DAQ system design laboratory for medical devices (fast picoseconds resolution VCR, FPGS programming and testing equipment)
Phantom design and fabrication laboratory (mechanical machinery tools, Autocad station)
Clean room for semiconductor radiation detectors assembling and investigation
PET computer control gantry for placement of different design PET detector modules

Please note the following equipment is located at collaborating hospitals
Modern radiation oncology modalities:
LINAC
Brachytherapy equipment
CT scanners
PET
MRI