Scientific facilities
- Mechanical research facilities
- Aerospace research facilities
- Industrial bioengineering research facilities
Mechanical research facilities
- Hydraulic testing machine INSTRON 8801 (100 kN)
- Hydraulic testing machine SCHENCK (250 kN)
- Hydraulic testing machine DARTEC HA100 (100 kN)
- Electro- mechanical testing machine ZWICK Z100 (100 kN)
- Pneumatic compression testing machine COMPULSE (10 m/s)
- Pneumatic tensile testing machine FASTENS (10 m/s)
- Drop weight tower (12 m height, 150 kg impacting mass)
- Impact testing machine CEAST FRACTOVIS
- Ultrasonic machine (20 kHz) for very high cycle fatigue testing
- Four-point rotating bending machine for fatigue testing AMSLER UBM 200 (frequency range 10-100 Hz, max bending moment 200 Nm)
- Four-point bending machine (prescribed displacement) for fatigue testing SCHENCK PWO (frequency range 1-15 Hz, max bending moment 30 Nm)
- Gas Gun for high speed impact testing (>200 m/s), Hopkinson bar
- Centrifugation well
- Test rig for splines (max torque 5000Nm, max speed 2000 rpm, max specimen angle 10’)
- X-ray diffractometer SIEMENS d5005
- Vibrophore AMSLER (load cell 100 kN)
- Infrared thermal camera THERMOSCAN NEC 7100
- Scanning laser vibrometer POLYTEC
- Optical profilometer ALICONA (infinite focus)
- Interferometric microscope ZoomSurf 3D Fogale Nanotech, optical microscope Leica DM 4000M, probing system Suss PM5
- Spinning well for dynamic tests on turbine disks or mock-ups (max speed 6000 rpm), telemetry system, permanent magnet passive excitation system, integrated Tip-Timing instrumentation
- Mechanical shaker (max force 5500 N, frequency range 10-2000 Hz)
- Electrodynamic shakers (10 - 5500 N)
- Climatic cabinet
- Roller rig for dynamic testing of rolling stock reduced-scale prototypes
- Test rig for railway seat characterization
- Test rig for railway bushings 1:1 scale
- Monitoring/diagnostics system with instrumented bushings and data acquisition/processing system
Aerospace research facilities
- Subsonic closed-loop wind tunnel, Ø 3m test chamber and 6 component balance
- Subsonic open-loop wind tunnel, 90 x 120 cm, for wake tests
- Subsonic open-loop wind tunnel, 80 x 60 cm, for tests on boundary layers
- Closed-loop hydraulic channel, 30 x 50 cm, for visualization in water; drop tunnel, 15 x 15 cm, for anemometric measurements
- Hydraulic tank, 30 m, with drag trolley at controlled speed
- Hydraulic machine Instron 8516 for static (120 kN) and dynamic (100 kN, 100 Hz) testing in tension, compression and fatigue
- Metrocom machine 20T (200 kN) for static tension, compression and bending tests of specimens and panels
- Charpy pendulum (50 J hammer) for resilience testing of standard specimens and panels
- Multichannel acquisition system for modal analysis
- AIP servohydraulic rigs for combined loading of plane or curved panels: 6 actuators controlled independently, possibility of pressurizing the part under test
- Multi-barrel ballistic systems for the study of the impact absorption properties of metallic and composite materials (max speed 500 m/s)
- Hydraulic machine AIP for static and dynamic testing (100 kN, 20 Hz)
- Hydraulic machine for torsion or bending testing of wing boxes
- Hydraulic machine AIP da 500kN static and fatigue testing
Industrial bioengineering research facilities
- Nanoindentometer MTS
- Electromechanical tensile testing machine MTS QTEST Elite
- Dynamic testing system Bose Enduratec ELF 3200
- Roland milling machine for rapid prototyping MDX-400, with rotary 4th axis
- Peristaltic pumps
- Hardware systems for data acquisition and control (National Instruments, Arduino)
- Bioreactors for regenerative medicine (cellular expansion, physical physiological stimulation of cells/tissues)
- Lyophilizer Scanvac, model Coolsafe
- Hood Labosystem, model Typhoon
- Electrospinning Linari Engineering
- DipCoater KSV NIMA, model Single Vessel Dip Coaters
- GPC Agilent Technologies, 1200 Series
- HPLC Thermo Scientific, Ultimate 3000
- Karl Fischer KEM, MKL-501
- Rotavapor Buchi Switzerland, R-210
- Contact angle measurement KSV Instruments CAM200
- Lyophilizer Christ Alpha 2-4 LSC
- FT-IR Perkin Elmer, Frontier
- ZetaSizer Malvern, Nano-S90
- Climatic cabinet IKA, KS 4000
- Rheometer Anton-Paar MCR302