Facility Sharing
You need specific equipment, but you don’t know what or where you can find it? M2i shares infrastructure and equipment resources for partners and SMEs..
Facility Sharing focuses on the accessibility of resources inside the M2i network. Sharing infrastructure broadens the scope of available equipment, improves the accessibility of dedicated instruments, and generates more expertise on the shared equipment.
Support
M2i organizes the accessibility of the resources in an efficient way including support of discussing the technical results of the experiments. Facility sharing is a service meant for both university and industrial partners of M2i, but also other companies, and in particular SMEs, can benefit from the service. Besides the use of infrastructure itself an important aspect of facility sharing is the possibility of getting support in discussing the technical results of the experiments. This has advantages for all participants.
Facility sharing for SMEs
For SMEs in particular support in discussing the technical results can be a true boost in innovation power as their normal R&D investments/hardware are relatively modest. Sharing facilities will stimulate sharing knowledge and know-how for mutual benefits of the involved parties.
What do I need?
If you need specific equipment, but you don’t know what, or where you can find it, the Facility Sharing overview below can help you out.
Thermal properties
Equipment described here is used to determine a wide range of physical properties of materials as a function of temperature, including the glass-transition temperature Tg, the melting temperature Tm, and solid-solid transitions.
Read more...Surface technology
The equipment described here can be divided into following sub-categories:
- testing and studying the properties of the surface or coating (texture, hardness, wear resistance etc.)
- surface preparation (polishing, etching, etc.)
- surface protection (application of coatings).
Microscopy
M2i offers the three well-known branches of microscopy: optical, electron and scanning probe microscopy.
Read more...Material processing
The equipment includes different aspects of metal processing: welding, heat treatment, cutting, deep drawing, casting, ultrasonic treatment etc. For a more detailed description please refer to the instrument specification.
Read more...Mechanical testing
Mechanical equipment is used to study tension, compression, bending, fatigue, shear, and creep properties of the material. For a more detailed description please refer to the instrument specification.
Read more...Heating and cooling equipment
Heating and cooling equipment is used for heating and cooling of material under controlled conditions (temperature, heating and cooling rate, air/vacuum/gas) atmosphere etc.).
Read more...Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry equipment is used to study the chemical reactions that take place in a solution at the interface of an electron conductor (a metal or a semiconductor) and an ionic conductor (the electrolyte), which involve electron transfer between the electrode and electrolyte.
Read more...Durability
Durable, from Latin durabilis, means to exist for a long time without significant deterioration. Equipment is aimed at studying materials exposed to different temperature and humidity circumstances. For a more detailed description please refer to the instrument specification.
Read more...Data Acquisition and Analysis
Data acquisition is the automatic collection of data from sensors, instruments and devices. For a more detailed description please refer to the instrument specification.
Read more...Nondestructive testing
Non-destructive testing is a non-invasive technique to determine a characteristic or the integrity of a material, component or structure.
Read more...Characterization of materials
Characterization refers to the use of techniques to probe the internal structure and properties of a material. Characterization can take the form of materials testing (e.g. visco-elastic properties of materials, morphological investigations, surface mapping) or analysis (e.g. chemical analysis). Equipment that can be used for revealing the microstructure of a material is summarised on Microscopy page. For a more detailed description please refer to the instrument specification.
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