Thermal analysis: characterization, instrumentation, simulation

We characterize and model heat transfer to help you improve your materials, products and manufacturing processes.

Measuring and simulating heat transfers to improve the thermal performance of your product or process is the heart of our expertise. Thanks to tests, analyzes and simulation performed at the level of the constituent, the material or the final product, we guide you in your choices and in the optimization of your forming processes.

Depending on the requirements of your projects or issues, our experts can characterize your products, design original test benches, imagine tailor-made instrumentation campaigns in the laboratory or on site and develop specific simulation tools.

Summary

Advanced thermal characterization of materials

Equipped with a wide range of thermal characterization devices, either commercial instruments or specifically developed experimental benches, our engineers take care to characterize the thermal properties of your solid and liquid materials under the closest conditions of your process, according to actual conditions of manufacture and use of your products.

In a nutshell

Conduction

Calorimetry

Volume evolution

Radiative properties

rheology – degradation

Conduction

Calorimetry

Volume evolution

Radiative properties

Rheology and degradation

Modelling, Thermal simulation

We offer solutions for modeling heat transfer on processes, taking into account possible couplings with other physics. Our modeling expertise, combined with our thermal experience, allows to size, understand, or even optimize your industrial processes.

In a nutshell

Comparative studies

Design assistance

Thermal phenomena

Prediction of defects

Thermal optimization

Sizing and design assistance

Understand thermal phenomena

Optimization

Development of integrated metrology solutions

We develop personalized metrology solutions, ranging from on-site thermal instrumentation, to the development of specific sensors or protocols, to the design of original experimental benches. Based on our experience in thermal metrology, we strive to carry out measurements under conditions closest to the actual process, while installing the least intrusive sensors.

In a nutshell

Thermal instrumentation

specific sensors

experimental benches

sizing and instrumentation

Thermal instrumentation

Development of specific sensors and protocols

Design of original experimental benches

Composite forming : thermal analysis of processes

From the advanced characterisation of your composite materials to the optimisation of the thermal parameters of your forming processes, we bring to your R&D projects our advanced scientific expertise.

In a nutshell

Conductivity

Thermal expansion

Rheology

Radiative properties

Welding thermoplastic composites

simulation

Laboratoire LTEN
Comsol

Engineering at CAPACITÉS

Our research laboratories

Our materials experts carry out their engineering work directly in the research laboratories of  Nantes Université, notably at LTeN. On a daily basis, they combine technical resources and scientific discoveries to meet your R&D challenges.

Certified Consultant

As certified consultants with COMSOL Multiphysics, we use our experience with this software to provide solutions for a wide range of thermal simulation projects.

Challenges we’ve met

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