Facilities

Facilities

The members of this laboratory use the following facilities for materials processing and characetrization. Some of these facilities are housed in the laboratory itself, some are department facilities and some are institute facilities.

Materials processing
1. Setup for Equal Channel Angular Extrusion
  (dies of different configurations used with a 100 ton hydraulic press) at room and high temperature.
2. Setup for Multi-axial forging (dies of different configurations used with a 100 tons hydraulic press) at room and high temperature.
3. Diffusion bonding unit.
4. Extrusion press.
5. A 2-Hi and 4-Hi rolling mill for (i) sheet/strip processing at room temperature, (ii) sheet/strip processing at high temperature, (iii) foil rolling and (iv) accumulative roll bonding.
6. A channel die compression set-up coupled with servo-hydraulic DARTEC machine for carrying out plane strain deformation at constant true strain rates.
7. Pulse electro-deposition set up for producing bulk nano-crystalline metallic materials.
8. Thin film deposition unit (These experiments are carried out in collaboration with Prof. S.Mohan and Prof. S. Raghavan of Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) and Prof. G. Mohan Rao of Department of Instrumentation.
Characterization of as-processed materials
1. Texture analysis by Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).
2. X-ray texture measurement.
3. Texture measurement by neutron and synchrotron radiations (experiments are carried in collaboration with Prof. H.-G. Brokmeier of GKSS Forschungzentrum, Germany).
4. Scanning and Transmission electron microscopy.
5. FIB.
6. Characterization of Mechanical properties by INSTRON, ZWICK and DARTEC machines.
7. Differential scanning calorimetry.
8. Optical microscopy with quantitative image analysis.
Softwares
1. Labosoft (texture analysis packages for detailed analysis of experimentally measured texture data).
2. TSL OIM 6.1 software for analysis and processing of EBSD data.
3. HKL Channel 5 software for analysis and processing of EBSD data.
4. REDS (Re-analysis of EBSD Data Software) from Seoul National University, Korea (Courtesy: Prof. K.H. Oh and Dr.D.-I. Kim).
5. Taylor based rate sensitive software for texture prediction (Courtesy: Prof. L. S. Toth) LAPP Code for texture simulation.
6. VPSC code for prediction of ECAE textures (Courtesy: Dr. C.N. Tome and Prof. L. S. Toth).

Laboratory for Texture and Related Studies

Materials processing

Characterization of as-processed materials

Softwares