The skills of our teams are combined with the expertise and exceptional technical resources of research laboratories from Nantes Université (France). We use a broad range of measurement and testing equipments including almost 220 devices. This enables us to offer a wide variety of tests and analyses dealing with the different properties of materials: physical-chemical, structural, mechanical, optical, thermal, etc.
This engineering and characterisation offer applies to all types of materials: metallic, polymer and composite, organic, cement and ceramic. Thus, we provide a global, reactive and local offer in response to your technical issues and innovation projects regarding materials and their performance.
Summary
Services
Benchmarking, advice
Expertise
Tests
Characterization
R&D projects
Whatever your challenges, our experts deliver functional and innovative solutions.
The forming processes and conditions of use of metallic materials and alloys are interdependent on their properties. Our materials engineers develop and perform the pertinent tests to determine the properties of your materials or the cause of their failure in order to optimise the choice of materials or manufacturing processes.
In a nutshell
Microscopies
Mechanical properties
Thermal properties
Implementation processes
Expertise of failure
From the reliability of surface preparation processes to the inspection of welded, bonded or coated assemblies, our experts will help you to control and improve your current processes. Understanding the phenomena at the interfaces is essential to address industrial issues related to assembly of materials and perfomance of coatings.
In a nutshell
functional materials
surface treatments
Process qualification
Characterisation
substitution of Chromium(VI)
Failure analysis
We identify the structure and properties of your polymers and thermoplastics. The aim: to optimise your manufacturing processes, improve your finished products or explain their failures. To do this, we carry out physico-chemical analyses and assess your products at the various stages of their shaping or use.
In a nutshell
Advanced characterisation
Thermal analysis
Thermal instrumentation
Multiphysics modelling
Durability – Aging
Reuse and recycling
Additive manufacturing
With the support of IMN researchers, our materials experts identify and characterise solid and powdered ceramic materials and determine their physical, chemical and structural properties. Our engineers have the necessary experience to carry out investigations in order to understand the possible failures of ceramic materials.
In a nutshell
Chemical analysis
microstructural analysis
Physical properties
Physical properties
NDT
Whether you are in the pre-certification phase or during the construction phase, our tests determine the mechanical and physico-chemical properties of your materials, in the laboratory or on site. Our equipment enables us to characterise a wide range of properties: strength, thermal insulation, permeability, etc.
In a nutshell
Characterisation of concrete
Formulation
low-impact concretes
pathology expertise
Durability
Resistance to the marine environment
Challenges we’ve met
Modelling the heat transfer of injection moulding processes
Analyzing and improving surface preparation
Contributing to the development of a new aeronautical composite material
Determining the properties of a thermal barrier
Concrete on Cruise Ships
Capacités teams inspire, harness and couple numerous cutting-edge skills covering a wide range of applications and expertise to meet all of your innovation needs with passion and commitment!
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