UTM with Environmental chamber
Specifications:
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Make and Model: Instron 5967
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Test temperature: -110 to 250 °C
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Load range: up to 30 kN
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Loading rate: up to 1000 mm/min
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Test fixtures: Tensile and Flexural
Applications:
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To obtain the stress vs. strain response of materials at a particular temperature
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Testing in liquid nitrogen bath
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Testing can be done in a range of loading rate from a low to moderate value
Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA)
Specifications:
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Make and Model: Netzsch DMA242E
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Test temperature: -160 to 550 °C
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Load range: up to 12 ± 12 N
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Test fixtures: Tensile, Compression, Flexural, Single and dual cantilever
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Test type: Standard DMA, Creep & Recovery, Stress relaxation
Applications:
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To identify the glassy and rubbery states of polymeric materials
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Long-term creep performance of the materials
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Can be used to predict the life time of the materials at a given temperature and stress
Alternating Differential Scanning Calorimetry-low temperature (ADSC)
Specifications:
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Make and Model: Mettler Toledo DSC 822
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Temperature range: -60 to 400 °C
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Desired static and dynamic temperature cycle setting facility
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Alternating cooling and heating
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Heating rate: up to 60 °C/min
Applications:
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To determine the glass transition temperature of the polymeric materials
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To detect the phase transformation in materials
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Evaluation of thermal history of the materials
Fourier transformed Infra-red Spectroscopy-Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Microscope
Specifications:
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Make and Model: Shimadzu IR Prestige-21
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Infra-red range: 350 to 7800 cm-1
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High sensitivity
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Sample type: Solid and liquid
Applications:
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To obtain the FTIR spectra of powder and film materials
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Microscope to identify a particular location for FTIR analysis
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Attenuated Total Reflection
Humidity Chambers
Specifications:
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Currently, there are 3 humidity chambers with temperature (10 to 70 °C) and relative humidity (up to 95%) control system
Applications:
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To study the kinetics of moisture absorption in polymeric temperature with various combinations of temperature and relative humidity.
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To evaluate the impact of absorbed water on the structure and properties of the polymeric materials.
FRP composite fabrication Lab
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Hand lay-up technique of FRP composite fabrication
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Hot compression machine
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Diamond tipped wheel cutter
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Nanocomposite fabrication
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2 No. of Ultra-sonicators
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2 No. of Magnetic stirrers
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