Lab Capabilities
We are fortunate to have a brand new state-of-the-art laboratory at WPI where we have our full-scale additive manufacturing instruments (gas dynamic cold spray system, Wire Arc DED system, polymer printers, etc.) as well as our materials processing instruments (environmental chambers, furnaces, etc.) and advanced experimental characterization and niche powder characterization instruments.
Additive Manufacturing
VRC Gen III Cold Spray System
Capable of producing coatings with diverse compositions on a multitude of substrates
GEFERTEC arc405 Wire Arc Directed Energy Deposition (Wire Arc DED) System
Capable of printing large (330 lb) 3D metal parts at high deposition rates controlled by a five-axis robotic system
Powder Processing
Nabertherm High-Temperature Inert Gas Rotary Tube Furnace
Thermotron Environmental Chamber
Low temperature Box Furnaces
MRF Bell Jar Arc Melter Furnace
Powder Characterization
Microtrac MRB’s SYNC Particle Size Analyzer
Hall Flowmeter from Alcan Powders & Pigments
Mercury Scientific’s Revolution Powder Analyzer (Powder Rheometer)
Retsch Vibratory Sieve System
Elemental analysis
Eltra ELEMENTRAC ONH-p 2 Analyzer
Horiba Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
Mettler Toledo C30S Coulometric Karl Fischer Titrator with an InMotion KF Pro Oven Autosampler
micromechanical characterization
KLA Instruments NanoFlip Nanoindentation System
KLA Instruments iMicro Pro Nanoindentation System
Keysight G200 Static Nanoindenter
Shimadzu Corporation MCT Particle Compression System
Plastometrex (UK) Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometer (PIP)
In-lab Microscopy
Zeiss EVO-MA10 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS)
Keyence VHX-7000 Digital Microscope
Olympus Corporation Inverted Optical Microscope
Additional Analyses
TA Instruments Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
JEOL Argon Ion Beam Cross Section Polisher