Heat-Treatment Furnaces:

With temperature indicators/controllers (Make: Heat chem. Industries, Baroda). For annealing, normalizing, hardening, tempering and stress relieving of materials. The furnaces can go upto a temperature of 1100 degree Celsius.

Brinell - cum - Vickers Hardness Tester:

Model No. 308 (Make : VEB WERKS to FPRUFMASCHINERU LEIPZIGS W. GERMANY). To measure Brinell and Vickers hardness number. For Vickers hardness number load range - 5kg to 120kg. For Brinell hardness number load range 15.6kg to 250kg.

Rockwell - cum - Brinell hardness Tester:

Model No. RAB/70/128 (Make : Fuel Instruments and Equipment Pvt. Ltd. Ichalkaranji). To measure Rockwell and Brinell hardness number. Loads - 60kg., 100kg., 150kg., 185kg., 187.5kg.

Vickers Hardness Tester:

(Make : Armstrony Ltd. U.K.). To measure Vickers hardness number.

Impact Testing Machine:

IT - z30 (Make: Fuel Instruments and Equipment Pvt. Ltd. Ichalkaranji). To measure Charpy and Izod impact strengths of Metals and Alloys and also to determine ductile-brittle transition Temperature.

Tensile Testing Machine:

Model T20 (Make: Morsanto, U.K.). Tensometer (T20) is a horizontal bench type tensile testing machine which has the maximum load value of 2000 Kg. The equipment is provided with 20 Kg., 200 Kg., and 2000 Kg. capacity load-cells along with a X-Y recorder which directly plots the stress-strain curve for the material under study. The equipment can be used for conventional tensile tests on both ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys and other materials using cylindrical, plate type or wire type samples.

Besides conventional tensile testing it can also be used for following purposes:

1. Compression testing.

2. 180 degree Celsius bend testing

3. Three-point bend testing

4. High temperatures tensile test upto 800 degree Celsius testing temperature

5. Hardness testing.

Induction Furnace, VIP Power Trak:

(Inductotherm USA)

A 15 KW induction melting equipment is available which provides a melting capacity of 6 Kg of steel in 26 minutes. Cast irons, alloy cast irons, alloy steels and non-ferrous alloys can also be melted in this furnace. The unit operates on 460 volts, 3 phase, 50 Hz, 20 KVA power source with an output of 9600 Hz, Single phase, 4000 volts. Pouring temperature of the order of 1650 degree Celsius is obtainable.

High Energy Attritor:

Mechanical attrition has gained considerable attention in material research as a non-equilibrium process resulting in solid state alloying beyond the equilibrium limit. High-energy attritor is the most effective and popular device for mechanical alloying. The attritor consists of a central shaft which rotates at high speed to collide with balls and generate high energy collisions between shaft balls and the powder charge to mechanical alloying to take place. Normally 1 Kg. of powder mixture can be milled in an attritor. The maximum capacity of an attritor for mechanical alloying is about 3.8x10-1 m3 with the central shaft rotating at a speed of upto 250 rpm.

Carbon Silicon Analyzer:

The instrument is used to determine the carbon and silicon content of molten cast iron and also carbon Equivalent of cast iron.

Methylene Blue Tester:

The instrument is used to determine dead clay content of foundry sands.