Laser Parameters

• 500W 1070 nm Nd:YAG Continuous wavelength fiber laser
• 70 micron spot size

Build Volume

• 350 x 350 x 350 mm

Environment

• Argon or nitrogen atmosphere
• Programmable O2 level
• Laminar flow adjustable from 0.5 to 3 m/s

Materials

• Suitable for reactive metals

AddUp’s FormUp 350 is a commercially available laser-powder bed fusion (LPBF) machine that offers manufacturers reliability, repeatability, and high performance. Its 350 x 350 x 350 mm manufacturing size is ideally suited to cover a wide range of applications, from small, but high-volume fine featured medical parts, to imposing hydraulic blocks for the aerospace industry.

Laser Parameters

• 200 W 1070 nm Nd:YAG Continuous wavelength fiber laser
• 55 micron spot size

Build Volume

• 100 mm dia. circular build plate
• Reduced 33.5 mm dia. circular build plate
• 60 mm nominal build height, 80 mm maximum build height

Environment

• Argon atmosphere
• 100 ppm O2 level
• Glove box add-on for reactive metals

Materials

• Suitable for reactive and precious metals

The mysint 100 printer from the Italian manufacturer Sisma is a commercially available laser powder bed fusion machine.

Compared to the Concept Laser m2 cusing machine, the Sisma mysint 100 is a smaller machine. It has a tilting powder coater that allows a reduction of the re-coating time of the powder layers. The mysint 100 is suitable for the additive manufacture of parts made from precious and non-precious metal powders.

Laser Parameters

• 200 W 1070 nm Nd:YAG Continuous wavelength fiber laser
• 90 micron spot size

Build Volume

• 245 x 245 mm build plate
• 285 mm maximum build height

Environment

• Argon or N2 atmosphere
• 0.4% O2 level
• Glove box add on for reactive metals

Materials

• Suitable for reactive metals

The Concept Laser m2 cusing is a commercially available laser powder bed fusion machine for the additive manufacture of alloy powders.

Laser Parameters

• 500 W 1070 nm Nd:YAG continuous wavelength (CW) laser
• 800 micron spot size

Build Volume

• 3 Axes: 400 x 250 x 250 mm
• 5 Axes: 200 x 250 x 200 mm

Environment

• Argon atmosphere

Materials

• Suitable for reactive materials
• Two hopper system

The Machine Mobile 1.0 from the French manufacturer BeAM is a blown powder laser metal deposition machine for R&D activities, training, and the production of small dimension parts.

rePowder is a commercially available Ultrasonic powder atomizer machine for metals and alloys.

rePowder, unlike gas atomization systems, uses ultrasonic vibration for metal atomization. Metal is poured or melted directly on the vibrating part resulting with tiny droplets being ejected from the surface. Droplets solidify in surrounding inert gas atmosphere forming powder particles. The result are highly spherical metal powders with narrow particle size distribution – up to 80% is good to use in desired processes.

• Induction melting is used to process alloys with melting points up to 1300 °C, for example:
• relatively low melting point and volatile materials that tend to evaporate in the plasma, such as Sn, Zn, Mg, Pb, and Al alloys,
• materials with high thermal capacities and conductivities, including precious metals like Cu, Ag, and Au alloys.
• Arc / plasma melting is suitable for working with all medium and high-melting materials including:
• ferrous alloys,
• Ti, Ni, Pt, Ir based alloys,
• refractory metals such as W, Ta, V, Mo, Nb, Re, etc. including High Entropy Alloys,
• metal matrix composite powders and amorphous metals.

• ICP synthesis setup
• High-energy milling: PM400 planetary ball-mill (Retsch)
• VPS/APS: Medicoat 50 kW with powder feeder (F-4 & V21 nozzle)
• Glove-box with regeneration unit (Jacomex)
• Powder sieve shaker (Retsch AS 200?)
• Powder mixing (Turbula, WAB AG Machinenfabrik)
• Particle size distribution analysis: Powdershape (image analysis)
• Laboratory scale microwave applicators, portable micro-wave furnaces for in situ synchrotron radiation experiments
• Microwave furnace (Fricke & Mallah)
• Pilot semi-industrial scale microwave oven (Püschner)
• IR spectrometer (Bruker)
• IR thermometry (Raytek)
• Vacuum/inert gas conventional furnace (Carbolite)
• Laboratory Electro Hydrolic Press (Enerpac 700bar)
• Hot-pressing, hot-extrusion
• Spark plasma sintering (in collaboration)
• High speed camera (Motion Pro Y4S3, Videal)
• Optical Emission spectrometer (Ocean Optics, HR2000)
• Oscilloscope 1 GHz, 12-bit, 4ch HDO6k (HDO6104, LeCroy)
• Laboratory for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) (fabrication and interrogation)
• 1 complete acoustic emission system from Vallen Systeme GmbH with various acoustic sensors, including hydrophone

• 4 polishing machines
• 3 cutting machines (Discotom 2 and Accutom 5)
• 7 furnaces (Temp. 0 - 250ºC and 0 – 1500ºC)
• 1 polycut (Reichert Jung), lab. for material etching.
• Special machine for sample preparation 
• Coating (Balzers BAE 250)
• Ion-milling (Balzers RES 010)
• Electro-polishing machine Polimat
• Hot press tool model 10 HS (Paul-Otto Weber Maschinen)

• 1 Coherent Avia 266-3000 ns laser at 266nm
• 1 Eximer Laser System XXL 248 nm (2x1.5 m2)
• 1 Eximer Laser System XL 248 nm (40x40 cm2)
• 1 Excimer Laser 193 nm
• 1 Rofin-Lasag LFS150 OEM (1070 nm) with fiber optic / fiber heads
• 1 SLS 200 C60 Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers 1064 nm
• 1 Nd:YAG Laser (Modell GCR-230, Spectra-Physics)  (to be installed)
• 1 C02 Laser (Modell Allmark 853-MS, Alltec) (to be installed)

• hardness (Vickers, Brinell, etc…)
• microhardness (1mN to 2 N)
• Digidrop GMX (contact angle measurement)
• Diffraction efficiency measurement set-ups ^
• Polariscope for photoelasticity measurements

• 1 SEM Zeiss DS 965 with EDX and EBSD
• Software Crosscourt (strain-stress measurements)
• 3 light microscopes (2 Axiomat and 1 Axioplan)
• Confocal Keyence VK-8700
• 2 Digital Holographic Microscopes with stroboscopic mode (1 DHM in transmission and 1 DHM in reflection)
• Imageaccess
• AnalySIS (digital imaging solutions)

• High Temperature Vacuum Tribometer (Anton Paar Pin-on-Disk tribometer combined with a DHM)
• SRV high frequency oscillating tribometer (SRV Optimol- Germany)
• Home-made tribometer for back and force movement with in-situ optical measurements

White light optical profilometer Altiprob (Cotec- France)