Facilities

Special facilities include

• Instrumented Charpy V Noch Testing machine
• Advanced computer controlled welding systems
• The latest robotic and automation systems
• High speed data acquisition
• High speed video and cine cameras
• 3kW diode laser
• Welding fume measurement system
• Friction stir welding system
• TIG Additive manufacturing facility
• Fully instrumented 750J Charpy impact tester
• 100KN 8801 Axial Servohydrolic Dynamic Testing system (Tensile, bending, fatigue, CTOD, etc)
• Scanning electron microscopes
• Electron back scattering diffraction unit
• Transmission electron microscope
• Atomic force microscope
• X-ray diffraction
• Optical microscopy and metallography
• Mechanical testing
• Nanoindenter+AFM
• Hille 100 rolling mill
• Mini rolling mill
• Thin foil rolling mill
• Nanoindenter+AFM
• CETR Pin on disc wear tester for high temperature testing
• High temperature roller on disc friction and wear test rig
• Slew bearing condition monitoring test rig
• Hardness testing
• GLEEBLE thermo-mechanical simulator
• Thermal analysis suite (DSC, dilatometry, DTA)
• High temperature 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 100 rolling mills
• Mini rolling mill
• Thin foil rolling mill
• 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 characterisation system
• Large scale cylindrical tri-axial apparatus with dynamic actuator (300 mm in diameter)
• Large scale cyclic prismoidal tri-axial rig with unrestrained sides (600x600x800 mm)
• Large scale consolidatometer (650 mm in diameter for soft soil testing)
• GDS controlled tri-axial apparatus
• Cyclic filtration apparatus (240 mm in diameter)
• California instruments 30 kVA programmable arbitrary waveform generator
• 100 kW, 3000rpm, 1000Nm 4-quadrant dynamic dynamometer
• Power quality analysers (including Hioki 3198 Power Quality Analyzers, Dranetz-BMI Power Xplorer PX5 and Elspec G4500 BLACKBOX Portable Power Quality Analyzer)
• Tektronix PA4000 Power Analyzer
• PMM 7000 EMI pre-compliance receiver and PMM L3-64 three-phase 64 A artificial mains network
• 100 pF, 100 kV standard capacitor and 1000:1 voltage divider
• 3 x 4.5 kW Chroma Electronic Loads
• 3 x 5 kW Terra Solar Array Simulators
  
• 500kN instron universal testing machine
• Large capacity drop hammer machines
• California instruments 30 kVA programmable arbitrary waveform generator
• 100 kW, 3000rpm, 1000Nm 4-quadrant dynamic dynamometer
• Power quality analysers (including Hioki 3198 Power Quality Analyzers, Dranetz-BMI Power Xplorer PX5 and Elspec G4500 BLACKBOX Portable Power Quality Analyzer)
• Tektronix PA4000 Power Analyzer
• PMM 7000 EMI pre-compliance receiver and PMM L3-64 three-phase 64 A artificial mains network
• 100 pF, 100 kV standard capacitor and 1000:1 voltage divider
• 3 x 4.5 kW Chroma Electronic Loads
• 3 x 5 kW Terra Solar Array Simulators
• 350 MHz Oscilloscope with probes to measure 150 A & 1kV
• Power loggers for distribution boards capable of simultaneous measurement of up to 30 single phase loads
• Netzch Heat Flow Meter (300 mm x 300 mm Sample size)Setaram uSC microcalorimeter
• High Resolution Thermographic Camera (640x480) with video capture function.
• 6 Retrotecc High Capacity Blower Door systems for building air permeability testing
• 3M EVM series portable air quality logging systems (incl. Particulates, VOC, COx , NOx)
• Testso 480 Loggers equipped with probes for Indoor Environment Quality & HVAC Measurement
• TSI Flow Hoods for HVAC balancing
• Bruel & Kjaer Sound Intensity measurement system (2270-G4)

• Small-Strain Hollow Cylinder Apparatus
• Cyclic simple shear apparatus
• Unsaturated tri-axial apparatus
• Static/cyclic tri-axial apparatus
• Back pressure shear box apparatus
• GDS cyclic process simulation apparatus
• Ring shear apparatus
• High Pressure Tri-axial Apparatus
• Scanning electron microscope with EDXS
• Field emission gun scanning electron microscope with EDXS and EBSD
• Texture goniometer
• Dustiness testing via AS4156 and I.S. EN15051
• Simulation research hub comprising 8- and 12-core workstations
• Dynamic/impact testing and calibration of bulk materials for DEM simulation modelling
• Large-scale direct shear tester with variable shear rate and displacement
• Arching and flow rate indicizers
• Particle and bulk material characterisation, including laser diffraction particle size analyser
• Treatment Planning Systems for Radiation Therapy (Pinnacle, Eclipse and HDR brachytherapy)
• Nuclear spectroscopy shielded room for radiation detector investigation
• Characterisation facilities for semi-conductor and scintillator based radiation detectors
• Computer cluster for Monte Carlo radiation transport simulations (GEANT, EGS, Beam, Pinnacle, MCNP)
• Electronic DAQ system designed 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 semi-conductor radiation detector assembly and investigation
• PET computer control gantry for relocating different designed PET detector modules
• DARwIn-OP Humanoid Robot
• Robotis Bioloid; Humanoid robot frame (and associated motor kits)
• GPS Differential data logger
• MVN BIOMECH 3D Motion suit for Human Kinematics
• MTw Development Kit (10 sensors) Wireless motion trackers set
• 2D Experimental Pneumatic motion stage (with Festo compressor)
• Oculus VR Head Mounted Display (3 units)
• Virtuix Omni Directional Treadmill
• Amedeo Hand Arm Rehabilitation robot
• Full scaled quarter car test platform
• Horizontal vibration table
• Small scaled 3-stories building
• Table drill
• MTS
• Rheometer
• CO2 laser engraving system (lab 6.225)
• Laser micromachining system –ALPHA Series Ultra-compact Micro-machining System, Oxford Lasers
• High DC power (600V) (lab 6.225)
• Plasma cleaner (Lab 6.225)
• Spin coater (lab 6.225)
• Fluorescent microscope (Lab 6.225)
• Electrochemical polymer deposition system
• 3D printing systems
• Projet 3510 HDPlus, 3D Systems printer
• Up Plus 2 3D printers
• Up Plus 3D printer
• Cube 3D printers
• Velleman K8200 3D printer
• 3D Scanner
• 3D Magnetic manipulation/levitation system
• Helmholtz coils
• Power Amplifiers (Sinocera YE5873H, YE5872H)
• Thorlabs optical table (PTM51508, PTP603) and instruments
• Lakeshore Gaussmeter (460 3-channel)
• Aim & TTi 1604 digital multimeter
• GW Instek DC power supply GPC-3030D
• Laser displacement measurement system
• E-corder 821 DAQ and analysis system
• Micro-Epsilon laser displacement sensors optoNCD1700
• Dual mode lever arm force measurement system
• Aurora Scientific force sensor 300C
• Digital Camera Nikon D5100
• Stereomicroscope Nikon SMZ1000
• Dielectric Elastomer actuation and testing system
• High-speed high-voltage power amplifier - TREK model 10/10B-HS
• GW Instek Oscilloscope (GDS-2104)
• Function generators
• E-corder 410 DAQ and analysis system
• Agilent Technologies E4980A Precision LCR Meter, 20 Hz to 2 MHz

• Modern radiation oncology modalities:
• LINAC
• Brachytherapy equipment
• CT scanners
• PET
• MRI