CANMET
Materials Technology Laboratory
Academic User Access Facility
Overview
In September
2003, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
awarded a Major Facilities Access Grant to Professor David Wilkinson
of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster
University, and to eight co-applicant Canadian university researchers.
Under the terms of this agreement, researchers from all universities
in Canada may apply for access to designated areas of the pilot-scale
materials processing facilities at the CANMET Materials Technology
Laboratory (CANMET-MTL). The agreement further specifies that funding
will be awarded for university research only, and that all projects
are subject to user fees payable by the applicant's academic institution.
Eligible
CANMET-MTL Facilities
As stated in the proposal funded by NSERC:
"The overall rationale for deciding which CANMET-MTL facilities
fall within the purvue of the user access facility are based on
their uniqueness within Canada and are characterized by the scale
of the facilities and the need for an extensive personnel skilled
in the efficient and safe operation of such facilities.”
These eligible
facilities include:
- Advanced
Fabrication (metal powder injection molding; metal-matrix
composites fabrication; nanomaterials; battery materials; ceramic
and electroceramic materials, including fuel cells, solar cells,
sensors, actuators, infrared optical glasses, etc.)
- Casting
Technology (air and vacuum induction melting; electric resistance
melting; sand, lost foam, investment, squeeze and semi-solid casting;
gravity and low-pressure permanent-mold casting; heat treatment;
data acquisition and thermal analysis; on-line chemical analysis)
- Concrete
and Ceramics (environmental chambers; mechanical and durability
testing equipment; physical, chemical and microstructural characterization
of aggregates, cementitious materials and industrial by-products;
mortar and concrete-mixing equipment [small to large capacities];
aggregate processing)
- Materials
Performance (fundamentals and causes of corrosion; methods
for identification; monitoring and control; industrial corrosion;
general and localized corrosion; high-temperature corrosion; microbial-induced
corrosion; coatings; inhibitors; stress-corrosion cracking; hydrogen-induced
cracking; sulfide stress cracking; stress-oriented hydrogen-induced
cracking; pipelines; rebars; pressure vessels; mechanical testing
and fracture mechanics; instrumented impact testing; full-scale
linepipe testing; modelling and computer simulation; residual
stress measurement; failure analysis)
- Metal
Processing (pilot-scale rolling simulation; CAM plastometer;
quench deformation dilatometer; hydraulic presses; swaging, drawing,
extrusion, forging, welding and joining)
- Other specialized
facilities (sample preparation and micro-milling)
Find out more
about the proposal development, submission,
and review process.
To learn more
about approved AUAF projects and projects currently underway, see
our project portfolio page.
For answers
to commonly asked questions, see our FAQ page.
View
a brochure about the Academic User Access Facility or download
the brochure in portable document format. (To view the PDF file,
you will require Adobe
Acrobat Reader software, offered free of charge by Adobe.)
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