Existing equipment
 Description

Tensile testing machine 200 kN,
computer assisted
 Fields of expertise
  • Workability test for new materials and advanced metal forming processes at room and high temperature (torsion, tensile and compression)
  • Modeling, simulation and optimization of metal forming technologies including incremental processes (rotary forging, dieless drawing, extrusion, assisted friction, rolling, conforming)
  • New tooling for metal forming (elastic dies, micro rolling/rod drawing, dieless  drawing).
  • Pressing and sinter forging at high density of  PM components  by use of nonconventional techniques (orbital pressing, assisted friction compaction, extrusion).
  • Bulk nanostructured materials from sever plastic deformation by use of ECA Pressing (equal channel angular extrusion/pressing).
  • Finite Element Analysis of metal forming processes by use professional advanced Software (SUPERFORM, MARC-AutoFORGE, QFORM ).
  • Design of metal forming technologies for advanced materials and critical components.
  • Training and consulting for industrial engineers in the field of metal forming, such of seminars, workshops and cheering of International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies MATEHN-‘94,’98, 02, ’06.

R&D infrastructure

Machines and equipments for plastic deformation processes (hydraulic presses: 400, 1000, 2500 kN, mechanical presses 63, 400, 630 kN,  duo rolling mill Ø 300 x 250), tensile testing machine 200KN, torsion testing equipment for room and hot temperature, rotary forging press, rod/wire drawing facilities, dieless drawing machine, friction assisted pressing press, machining facilities for tools making, experimental data acquisition system, grinding and polishing machine for semi-automatic preparation of metalographic specimens, digital microhardness tester Vickers. Computer aided design and FEA for metal forming processes (IBM workstations PENTIUM 4, professional software SUPERFORM, QFORM, Work design, Solid Works), Science directs access, more recent books on metal forming, etc.



Facilities

Aplicative researches regarding the optimization of plastic deformation processes, experimental data regarding metallic materials behaviour at cold and warm plastic deformation, design of  plastic deformation technologies and complex shape parts pressing by optimization of the deformation regime using modelling and simulation by FEM. The members of research team are (have been) involved in EU research projects (INCOCOPERNICUS  PL 96 4424-Rotary Forming  (1997-99), EUREKA Project CORESS EU 1424 (1997-2001), EU (Frame 5) CRAFT Project GS1ST –50214 (2000-2004) and in more than 40 national research contracts and grants related to optimization of plastic deformation processes (Spark plug body for Dacia Logan manufacturing by combined extrusion), using of elastic dies for complex shape PM parts, rolling and drawing of complex micro-profiles. Training and consulting for industrial engineers in the field of metal forming, such of seminars, workshops and cheering of International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technologies MATEHN-‘94,’98, 02, ’06.

Access to lab facilities

The access is based on research contracts or microproduction or services orders.

Certificates

There are emitted trials certificates for plastic deformation equipments (static rigidity, work precision, efficiency), structural analysis and mechanical properties (strength, deformability) for parts manuctured by plastic deformation. For the improvement courses the certificates awarded are according to the DECID Department of UTCN.

Research projects

International projects:

1) INCOCOPERNICUS: PL 96 4424 – Rotary Forming: Optimization of cold rotary forging for complex shape parts, in which was developed a FEM modelling and simulation software for rotary forging process for steel and aluminium alloys parts (Partners from Germany, Poland, Slovakia, France and Romania).

2) EUREKA CORESS EU 1424: Manufacturing of complex shape parts from high resistant stainless steel through powder metallurgy. The reseach team was responsible for high density rotary pressing parts and their sintering (Partners from United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey and Romania.

3) CRAFT –LOTHISS GS1ST-50214: Manufacturing of complex shape parts with very high wear resistance from high speed steels, by reducing the sintering temeperature. The research was responsible for for rotary and clasic pressing in elastic dies of sample parts such as die inserts and valve seats (Partners from United Kingdom, Italy and Romania).

4) LOMAF –CRAFT and A Type Grant: Manufacturing of metallic foams from aluminium through powder metallurgy. The research team was responsible for manufacturing aluminium foams by powder pressing with foaming mixture of Ti H2, both rotary pressed and in elastic dies for high densities.

CEEX Contracts
  1. Researches on metallic matrix advanced composites MMCs and ceramics CMCs materials pre-processing and processing.
  2. Researches on high resistance sintered samples technologies for agriculture and alimentary industry equipments by introduction of environment protection measurements.
  3. Researches on the obtaining technology and studies on the education processes of memory form alloys using powder metallurgy.
  4. Light-weight alloys for aeronautic and spatial industry with thixotropic structure, realised by powder metallurgy.
  5. Researches on processing, characterisation and applications of metallic foams.
  6. Programme IMPACT-PULBCOMSEC, Partnership Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, S.C. Sinterom S.A. Cluj-Napoca
  7. Equipment and innovative technologies specific for powder metallurgy.
  8. Innovative technologies for obtaining electrical contacts using the equal channel angular extrusion.

Rotary forging press PXW 100

Grinding and polishing machine
for semi-automatic preparation
of metalographic specimens

Digital micro hardness
tester DM 8-B

Torsion testing equipment for
 room and hot temperature

Tubular furnace type Carbolyte

Dual cage rolling mill  Ø 300 x 250

Design and FEM laboratory