Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Engineering and qualification
The engineering and qualification of materials and components are carried out as an essential part of the optimization of new processes and materials and for service activities targeted at industry demands. The expertise acquired on qualification and thermomechanical characterization allows testing, even at high temperature, materials and components under operating or accident conditions. Activities include standard tests on instrumented samples, data processing and statistical analysis of results.
Materials testing
Monolithic ceramics
- Bending test up to 1500 °C
- Equibiaxial flexural test
- Compressive test on C-Ring up to 1500 °C
- Compressive test up to 1500 °C
- Flexural creep up to 1500 °C
- Thermal shock resistance
- Fracture toughness
- Subcritical crack growth (SCG)
Ceramic composites
- Tensile test up to 1400 °C
- Compressive test
- Bending test up to 1500 °C
- Interlaminar shear test
- Compressive test on C-Ring up to 1500 °C
- Flexural creep up to 1500 °C
Polymeric matrix composites
- Tensile test
- Compressive test
- Bending test
- Interlaminar shear test
- Fatigue test
- Resilience test
Metals
- Tensile test up to 900 °C
- Fatigue test (low and high frequency) up to 900 °C
- Creep and creep rupture up to 1000 °C
- Fracture toughness test
- Resilience test
- Vickers and Rockwell hardness
Building materials
- Compressive test on concrete up to 900 °C
- Compressive test on mortar
- Bending test on concrete or mortar
- Resistance test to deep abrasion on ceramic tiles
- Tensile test on reinforced bar or drawn wire
Components qualification
Designing and developing mechanical testing, even non-standard, can be furthermore performed, also with the support of finite elements calculations and reliability analyses.
- Intrusion test in accordance with the FIA standard
- Burst test on tubular components
- Torsion test on cylindrical bars
- Resistance checks for concealed traffic bollards