Other Capabilities

 

INL’s diverse engineering expertise gives us the ability to design and build analytical equipment to suit specific research needs. Our capabilities also include:

 

Heat Treating: 13 furnaces with diverse capabilities

- Three horizontal tube furnaces

- Three sealed-box heat treating furnaces

- Four Aging furnaces

- Vertical tube furnace

- Astro vertical furnace

- One hydriding furnace

Metals Joining/Welding 

- IPG Ytterbium Laser System YLS-4000 laser (4kW light output continuous IR laser)

- Automated TIG and MIG weld systems with computer control easily coupled with laser for hybrid operation

- Wills Mills friction stir welding machine equipped with 4-axes dynamometer

Six spray coating systems

- Thermal/Praxair 100-kW Ar-He or Ar-H2 (Plasma)

- Metco 100-kW Ar-H2 (Plasma)

- TAFA/Praxair 250-kW N2-H2 (Plasma)

- Sultzer 100-kW Ar-H2 and N2 (Plasma)

- TAFA/Praxair Kerosene-O2 (HVOF)

- TAFA/Praxair (Twine wire arc)

Materials Handling

- Custom built Haptic Telepresence Robotic System designed to work remotely in harsh environments

- Two inert glove boxes

Full Metallography Suite