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Laboratory of Applied Metallurgy

URL: users.uoi.gr/metallab/
Tel.: (+30)-265100-7349, 9004
Installation:   Building Ε1, ground floor and Main Building of DMSE, 1st floor, University Campus
Director: Professor A. Lekatou
Personnel
Research
Equipment
Education
Faculty members Researchers (postgraduate students)
  • S. Tsouli (PhD candidate)
  • Ch. Mathiou (PhD candidate)
  • I. Karabinis (PhD candidate)
  • Α. Gogolos (Post-Grad.)
  • Α. Karakasi (Post-Grad.)
  • G. Giotakis (Post-Grad.)
  • Α. Fotsis (Post-Grad.)
Technical support and training staff
  • S. Kleftakis (Dipl. Metallurgy Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, MSc.)
  • E. Georgatis (Dipl. Metallurgy Mining and Metallurgical Engineering)
Research interests
  • Development of new metallic materials (in-situ and ex-situ particulate composites, nanocomposites (Al- and Fe-alloys matrix, ceramic matrix, intermetallic matrix), amorphous and nanostructured coatings, Complex Metallic Alloys, High Entropy Alloys)
  • Development of new and optimization of metallic material production techniques (casting, vacuum arc melting, powder metallurgy, thermal spraying)
  • Thermal-mechanical-surface treatments of metallic materials
  • Microstructural studies of metallic materials (metallography, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy in partnership with relative laboratories)
  • Corrosion performance of alloys, composites, coatings and reinforced concrete with advanced electrochemical techniques (localised corrosion studies, weldments corrosion) and high temperature corrosion studies
  • Surface mechanical properties (sliding wear, friction, solid particle erosion, dynamic hardness, elastic modulus, plastic deformation and elastic deformation through nano-indentation)
Equipment & facilities

Thermal and mechanical treatment, alloy manufacturing and high-temperature corrosion testing equipment
  • Vacuum Arc Melting furnace
  • Induction melting furnace
  • Electric resistance melting furnace 900 oC (pilot plant cast system)
  • Two heat treatment box furnaces (1280 oC)
  • Tube furnaces (1200 oC)
  • Two pyrometers (2000 oC, 3000 oC)
  • Rolling machine
  • 1 uniaxial hydraulic press 7.6 t
Surface property testing equipment (Corrosion, wear/erosion, nano-indentation)
  • Three Galvanostats – Potentiostats (conventional, for Critical Pitting Temperature determination and Weld measurements)
  • Corrosion cells
  • Salt spray chamber
  • Ball-on-disk tribometer
  • Profilometer
  • Solid particle erosion tester
  • Nano-indenter
Mechanical testing equipment
  • Tensile testing machine (100 kN) also performing compression tests and 3 and 4-point bending tests
  • Impact testing machine
  • Two hardness testers (HRB, HRC)
  • Micro-hardness tester
Metallography equipment
  • Optical microscope with Image Analysis software
  • Grinding and polishing machine
Support of students' training courses
  • Laboratory of Materials IV (Metallurgy)
  • Post-graduate training on the fabrication and properties of metallic materials
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