Facilities

nCATS equipment

nCATS has full access to the surface engineering and tribology facilities for measurement and analysis at both the University of Southampton and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

Please see below for a list of facilities to conduct tests on sliding wear / friction, abrasion wear, erosion, corrosion, properties of materials / coatings and characterisation, and downloads of information on the facilities available at Southampton in PDF format.

Note that these been recently been updated (Dec 10) and that details of most equipment is available in the Equipment & Facilities Overview in the downloads on this page (for individual slides about specific equipment see relevant sections).

Please also visit the Electron Microscopy Centre website.