Laboratories

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Laboratories

School of Engineering

Machining Laboratory (500 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Cleiton Rodrigues Teixeira

  • 5-axis HSM vertical machining center — HAAS VMC VF-2, 30 hp
  • CNC lathe Centur 35D ROMI, 10 hp
  • Conventional universal lathe ROMI SD-40B
  • Universal lathe NARDINI MS205AS
  • High-speed precision lathe KART EGM-200, 20 hp
  • Vertical milling machine FKrS 630 × 2000, 30 hp
  • Automatic universal milling machine MUL-320, 30 hp
  • Universal milling machines Model 400-02, 10 hp
  • Radial drilling machine RF 31/B, 10 hp
  • Coordinate drilling machine BKoE 315 × 500, 10 hp
  • Table planer HES 800/2000, 15 hp
  • Shaper planers ZOCCA, 15 hp
  • Boring machine BFT-80, 10 hp
  • Gear generator ZFW-500 × 6, 20 hp
  • EDM machine EROSlMATIC-C
  • Kistler 4-channel piezoelectric cutting force measurement system
  • National Instruments high-speed signal acquisition system
  • Zeiss digital cutting-tool wear measurement system

Forming Laboratory (115 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Carlos Alberto Medeiros Casanova

  • 400-ton four-guide hydraulic press
  • 50-ton EVA hydraulic press
  • Tube bender, maximum diameter 1½ in
  • IMAC sheet bender, maximum thickness ¼ in
  • Sheet roll former, maximum thickness ¼ in
  • Plate and section rolling mill (25 hp)
  • Metal-powder mixer and dies for compaction tests

Inspection Laboratory (100 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Cleiton Rodrigues Teixeira

  • Oxford Foundry-Master Pro optical emission spectrometer with Fe, Al, and Cu bases
  • Conventional ultrasound system — GE Phasor — ASME and AWS standards
  • Phased-array ultrasound system — GE Phasor XS
  • Hexagon Performance 575 CNC 3D coordinate measuring machine

Metallography Laboratory (125 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Luciano Volcanoglo Biehl

  • Equipment for metallographic sample preparation
  • BUHLER Delta Abrasimet metallographic cutter
  • MESOTOM metallographic cutter
  • BUHLER Simplimet 2 metallographic press
  • BUHLER Minimet metallographic polishers (×2)
  • PRAZIS and STRUERS metallographic polishers (×2)
  • Metapol FOK-GYEM electrolytic etching/polishing equipment
  • 5 × Zeiss Stemi 2000C stereoscopic microscopes with cameras, monitors, and external illumination
  • 12 × ZEISS, Olympus, and Askaria reflected-light optical microscopes
  • Olympus GX 51S reflected-light optical microscope with image-analysis system
  • Digital image acquisition system

Mechanical Testing Laboratory (250 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Carlos Alberto Medeiros Casanova

  • Servo-hydraulic fatigue testing machine, 20 t — Shimadzu EHF-EV200K 1
  • Static tension/compression machines — 30 t, 20 t, and 10 t
  • Fatigue testing machine (tension/compression) — 6 t
  • 4-station rotating-bending fatigue machine
  • Vickers, Brinell, Knoop, and Rockwell hardness testers
  • Shimadzu HMV 2T microhardness tester
  • Charpy impact tester
  • Ericson testing machine
  • Abrasion testing machine

Metallurgy Laboratory (110 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Luciano Volcanoglo Biehl

  • Sand mill/mixer for foundry molds
  • Resistance electric furnaces 1100–1250 °C (×3)
  • Crucible resistance electric furnace 1100–1250 °C
  • Oxford Foundry Master-Pro optical spectrometer for Fe, Al, and Cu alloys
  • Jominy hardenability testing machine

Welding Laboratory (250 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Douglas Bezerra de Araújo

  • Robotic welding cell — Motoman HP-20 robot, 20 kg payload, multiprocess manipulator
  • Controlled welding power source — Fronius TPS4000 (MIG/MAG, pulsed MIG/MAG, TIG)
  • Controlled welding power source — Miller Multi-MIG (MIG/MAG, pulsed MIG, flux-cored, RMD)
  • Controlled welding power source Lincoln POWERWAVE 455M/STT (SMAW, TIG, MIG/MAG, pulsed MIG, flux-cored, gouging, STT)
  • Controlled welding power source Merkle high-frequency TIG (AC TIG and pulsed TIG up to 5 kHz)
  • Hypertherm Powermax 1650 plasma source — cuts plates up to 38 mm and gouges
  • Complete Torchmate 1.2 × 2.4 m CNC coordinate table with torch-height control (AVC) and cutting-optimization software
  • TIG ESAB HELIARC 355 sources (TIG, pulsed TIG, AC TIG)
  • ESAB SMASHWELD 408 TopFlex sources (MIG/MAG)
  • ESAB MIGTrack welding tractor with magnetic base
  • Plasma and oxy-cutting tractor
  • Automatic and manual oxy-cutting kits
  • 12-channel welding variables control, measurement, and acquisition system

Metrology Laboratory (100 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Volnei Andersson

  • Dimensional measurements and calibrations
  • Dimensional standards (class 0 gauge blocks and ring gauges)
  • Abbe metroscopes (horizontal and vertical)
  • Universal measuring microscope
  • Mechanical and digital comparators, surface and reference plates for straightness deviation, and miscellaneous manual dimensional-control instruments
  • Force, mass, torque, and pressure measurements and calibrations
  • Load rings usable as calibration standards
  • Spider HBM data acquisition system for strain gauging and inductive sensors
  • Lightweight structures with dynamometers and mechanical displacement gauges for structural-element evaluation
  • Strain-gauge kit; static torque wrench for bolt tightening; weights (N and kg) for didactic balance and force-meter calibration; steelyard balances; prototypes of load cells, balances, torque wrenches, pressure cells, and other strain-gauge-based devices
  • catman measurement software (HBM)

Corrosion/Metallography Laboratory (43 m²)

  • FEUTRON climatic and aging chamber
  • Zeiss Stemi 200C stereoscopic microscopes with cameras, external illumination, and monitors
  • Zeiss AUS JENA metallurgical microscope
  • Salt-spray chamber

PPMec Computer Laboratory (18 m²)

  • 12 PCs with Internet access

Numerical Modeling in Engineering Laboratory (LAMONE) (29 m²) — Coordinator: Prof. Paulo Roberto de Freitas Teixeira

  • 11 PCs with Internet access
  • Simulation software: Ansys®, Abaqus®, and Tecplot®

Equipment under acquisition (source: CT-Infra)

  • MAGNAFLUX magnetic-particle NDT kit
  • MultiFlux MFX-1000 eddy-current testing equipment
  • YXLON Smart 300HP X-ray testing equipment
  • GAMMAMAT TSI 5/1 gamma radiography equipment
  • Controlled-atmosphere furnaces for metal-alloy melting
  • Complete submerged-arc welding system — up to 1000 A, 100% duty cycle AC/DC
  • Complete plasma welding system — up to 500 A AC/DC
  • Complete tandem MIG/MAG welding system — up to 500 A per wire
  • Complete LASER welding system — fiber-optic laser, up to 5 kW
  • Second welding robot, 20 kg payload, multiprocess manipulator
  • High-speed imaging system (camera, lenses, illumination laser) — up to 60,000 fps, arc-light elimination
  • Philips X'Pert MPD theta-2-theta X-ray diffractometer
  • Residual-stress measurement equipment by the hole-drilling method
  • IviumStat 10V-5A potentiostat/galvanostat for electrochemical corrosion tests
  • Electrochemical cell for potentiostatic testing — AS

Multi-user infrastructure of FURG (source: CT-Infra)

  • Scanning electron microscope, high and low vacuum — ENVIROMENTAL JEOL JSM 6610LV
  • JEOL JSM 6610LV detectors: SE, BSE, EDS (NORAN System)
  • Transmission electron microscope 120 keV — JEOL JEM 1400
  • JEOL JEM 1400 with CCD camera and EDS 7 spectral acquisition system
  • RMC PTX ultramicrotome
  • AUTODSAMDRI-815 critical point
  • GKM-2 glass knife maker
  • DESK V sputter coater for gold and carbon
  • Computing hardware for the administrative node of a cluster network
  • Trinocular microscope
  • Fluorescence microscope
  • Total organic carbon analyzer
  • Acoustic Doppler current profiler
  • ICP-OES (plasma)
  • Liquid chromatograph coupled to mass spectrometry
  • Texturometer
  • Computing system for cluster setup
  • Real-time PCR
  • CAVE visualization environment with projection planes, servers, and interactivity device
  • Dual-processor computing nodes
  • Complete digital photogrammetric station
  • Gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector, electrode, and electronic flow control
  • Laser scanner: sensor for precise 3D environment measurement with high productivity
  • ABS 3D printer for rapid prototyping
  • Automated industrial plant with equipment and devices from automated industries
  • Wind tunnel
  • 3-level dispersion-model calibration tower