Equipment and facilities

State-of-the art experimental equipment is available in the research laboratories of A&M. It mostly includes several testing facilities...

• A large subsonic wind tunnel (Mach < 0.15, for multi-disciplinary applications, from aeronautics to wind engineering)
• Roller bench and engine bench
• Force and pressure measurement, human motion analysis, measurement of muscle activity, heart rate, and energy consumption, sport equipment
• Materials testing machine
• Material characterization (thermal properties, microstructure and tribology)
• Vibration testing of mechanical structures
• High-speed microscopic imaging
• Robotic arms
• Robotics and Automation
• Thermodynamic benches
• Climatic rooms
• Hot air generator (500 kW/450°C)
• Facilities for testing heat exchangers, compressors, expanders, heat pumps, boilers, mobile air conditioning equipments and ORCs

In addition, A&M has both expertise and equipment required for several fabrication processes:

• Multimaterial 3D printing
• Thin film deposition (Physical Vapor Deposition and sputtering)
• Semi-solid metal casting
• Soft lithography
• Machine shop