Tribology
♦ Fretting tribometer
♦ Reciprocating sliding tribometer
♦ Pin on disk tribometer
♦ Micro hardness
Electrochemistry and Corrosion
♦ Rotating electrochemical quartz crystal microbalances
♦ Electrochemical equipment: potentiostats, pulse generators and ac impedance
♦ Controlled humidity and salt spray chambers for corrosion testing
Surface modification
♦ Sputter deposition apparatus (Edwards) with two chambers for dc and rf magnetron sputtering
♦ Anodization appartus with computer control
Characterisation methods
♦ Microspot-X-ray fluorescence apparatus (Kevex)
♦ Optical contacless profilometer (UBM)
♦ Optical microscopes