Competencies
Responsável: António Bastos
The Materialography Laboratory (LM) specializes in training and research in the field of surface analysis of metals, thermoplastics, and composites.
Core competencies
- Three-dimensional digital microscopy
- High‑resolution three-dimensional confocal microscopy
- 2D digital microscopy
- Metallography
- Macroscopy
- Micrography
- Non‑contact linear and area roughness measurement
- Vickers and Knoop hardness and microhardness testing
- Nano‑indentation
- Micro‑indentation
- Scratch testing
- Hot mounting of samples for metallography
- Automatic polishing of samples for metallography
- Elemental analysis of alloys by optical emission spectroscopy
- Residual stress measurement by XRD
Available equipment
- Olympus DSX 1000 three‑dimensional digital microscope
- Evident LEXT OLS 5100 laser confocal microscope
- Inspectis Weld Inspect inverted digital microscope
- Innovatest Falcon 610 automatic Vickers and Knoop hardness/microhardness tester
- Anton Paar NHT3 nano‑ and micro‑indentation system
- Anton Paar NST3 scratch tester
- Buehler SimpliMet 4000 automatic hot mounting press for thermoplastic sample embedding
- Buehler AutoMet 250 Pro grinder/polisher with automatic arm
- Optical emission spectroscopy equipment for elemental analysis
- Rigaku AutoMATE II residual stress measurement system (XRD)
