The Corrosion and Surface Technologies Team accumulated a long-year experience in the field of corrosion prevention and surface treatment of materials, especially metals and MMC’s (metal matrix composites). The laboratory has all the metallurgical facilities to deal with industrial challenges and a group of high-qualified specialists having wide scientific and technological knowledge.
Corrosion and Surface Technologies Group
Services
Main fields of activity
- Corrosion testing and prevention, including Corrosion failure analysis, Corrosion measurements and tests, Electrochemical corrosion measurements (including different procedures like ASTM F-2129 and many more), Critical Pitting Temperature (CPT), etc.
- Surface treatment including Electroless coating deposition and Electrodeposition of metals alloys and metal/particles composites coatings, Electrophoretic deposition for the formation of ceramic coatings, Conversion coatings and different plasma processes like Plasma Electro-Polishing (PEP), Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) and Cathodic Plasma Electrolytic Deposition (CPED).
Accreditation as a certified Testing Laboratory (No.023-06) under ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 from the Israel Laboratory Accreditation Authority (ISRAC)
Lab facilities
- Electrochemical measurement systems- Potentiostats, EIS (Impedance electrochemical spectroscopy ) instruments with suitable software, scanning electrochemical work station SVP and SECM micro corrosion measurement system.
- Power supplies.
- Optical Microscopes.
- Salt Spray (Fog) Chamber.
- Chemical laboratory facilities.
- Metallographic cross-section preparation equipment.
- TABER abrasion tester.
- SEM&EDS, HRSEM, GDEOS, XRD, Mechanical characterization (e.g. Hardness testers, INSTRON for Tensile strength measurements, etc.).
