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Waikato Centre for Advanced Materials (WaiCAM)

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Major Research Facilities Accessible Through WaiCAM

Materials processing facilities:

• Cold and hot isostatic presses
• medium scale high energy mechanical milling machine for processing kilogram amount powders
• laboratory scale high energy ball mills
• medium scale atomiser for producing kilogram amounts of metal powders
• plastic and powder injection moulding machine
• plastic extruder
• metal casting facilities including an induction furnace and a casting simulation software.
• furnaces: including controlled atmosphere tube furnaces and vacuum tube furnaces with working temperature up to 1650oC.

Materials characterisation and testing facilities:

• X-ray diffractormeter (XRD)
• Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
• Thermal analysis instruments (DSC, DTA/TGA)
• Laser particle size analyser
• Instron and Lloyds tensile and fatigue testing machines, capable of high temperature testing up to 1000oC.