Laboratory of physical and mechanical properties

State-of-the-art facilities and equipment for characterizing the mechanical properties of metallic materials and components.

Main activity

Tightening torque equipment for fasteners with capacities between 10 Nm and 30,000Nm.
Traction/compression machines with capacities between 200N and 1500KN.
Fatigue bench with slotted bed for dynamic multiaxial mechanical tests composed of three independent actuators (25KN, 25KN and 50KN).
Cryoscopic chambers for Charpy tests at low temperature (up to -196ºC).
Axial fatigue machines of 100KN and 250KN capacity.
Charpy pendulums for impact bending tests with a maximum capacity of 300J (UNE and ASTM).
Instrumented pendulum for impact tests with a maximum capacity of 50J.
Climatic chamber for static or dynamic tests at low and high temperatures (from -120ºC to +325ºC).
Furnace for static tests at high temperature (+100ºC to +1300ºC).
Manual Vickers hardness tester (0.1÷30Kg).
Automated Vickers microhardness tester (0.01÷2kg).
Brinell hardness tester.
Rockwell hardness testers.