Laboratory
Facilities
Facilities available at the DIMMALab include equipments to meet the special requirements for the research and development of metal and ceramic materials but also for composites, polymers, metal foams, functionally graded materials (FGMs), hard metals and coatings, and nanomaterials.
Our facilities include:
Spark Plasma Sintering Equipment type KCE®-FCT HP D 10 for consolidation of various powdery raw materials by using uniaxial pressing force and heating by direct current supply (DC impulses) up to temperatures of 2400°C. The whole process can be run under vacuum as well as under inert atmosphere (N2, Ar) to sinter powders.
Powder preparation equipment: 2 planetary Mills, a Turbula T2F, vibratory sieving equipment SS3 press of 20 Ton, glove box with controlled atmosphere to work in argon or nitrogen atmospheres, analytical balances, and 2 drying ovens.
Laser cutting equipment Trotec Laser Speedy 400 and 3D printing equipment.
Mechanical shop laboratory: In this laboratory, the tools and materials necessary for the maintenance and reparation of some equipment required during the project are available, such as the CNC (Haas) machine and the pro-engineering software used to design mechanical parts.
Other facilities available at the Mechanical Engineering Department and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department:
Microstructural characterization laboratory: manual and automatic polishers (Presi), Press mount specimens (Presi), Specimen cutting machine (Isomet), Atomic absorption spectrophotometer Shimadzu AA 6800, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) EVO Carl Zeiss and X-Ray diffractometer STOE STADI MP.
Mechanical testing laboratory: Accessories for Archimedes´ measurement, Zwick Roell universal testing machine for mechanical testing (4 and 10 Tons), conventional hardness testing machines (Rockwell, Brinell).
Team Members
Current Lab Members
Sheila Lascano Farak
Principal Investigator
Dr. Lascano joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM) in 2012 and directs the GRIM3A since its creation in 2017. Prior to joining UTFSM, Dr. Parra was professor and researcher in Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla-Colombia). Dr. Mechanical Engineering Uninorte (2012).
sheila.lascano@usm.cl
Mauricio Reyes Valenzuela
Research Assessor
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2017).
Ricardo Chávez Vásconez
B.S. Mechanical Engineering Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito-Ecuador(2017). Doctoral Student Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, M.S. Student Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso-Chile
Sergio Sauceda Martínez
B.S. Mechanical EngineeringUniversidad Michoacana San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia-México(2018). M.S. Student Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso-Chile
Claudio Aravena
Technical Assistant
Tecnico Universitario en Diseño y Fabricación de Matrices y Moldes, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso-Chile (1997). Technical staff, Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Ignacio Gonzalez
Research Assistant
M.S. Student,Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago-Chile.
Yerko Espinosa Maldonado
Research Assistant
B.S. Student, Mechanical Engineering Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago-Chile.
Felipe Benitez Maldonado
Research Assistant
B.S. Student, Mechanical Engineering Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago-Chile.
Gabriel Sanllehi Oyanedel
Research Assistant
B.S. Student, Industrial Mechanical Engineering Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria.
Ingrid Godoy Ramírez
Administrative Assistant
Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago-Chile.
Former Lab Members
Daniela Muñoz
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2015). Currently at Maintenance Engineering in Sanitarias IV and V region, Chile.
Viviana Mardones Echeverría
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2016). Currently at Codelco, Radomiro Tomic, Calama, Chile.
Jorge Maluenda Cáceres
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2018)Currently at Komatsu Reman Center Chile (Antofagasta).
Raymundo Valverde Veloso
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (2019).
Opportunities
Design and prototyping of a porous dental implan.
Development of bioactive coating and biological response in TiNbTaMn alloys for biomedical applications.
Design and prototyping of in vitro system to perform tensile tes.
Characterization of mechanical behavior of hard coatings obtained by thermal spraying.
Design and development of porous media for combustion.
Improvement of solar cells panels using highly porous thermal cooling system.
Labs news and events
Visit of ASMAR, June 2019, Valparaíso-Chile.
Raymundo Valverde presentation to obtain B.S. in mechanical Engineering.
I Workshop nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing and industry, 2019. See more.
Participation in Computational Mechanics Congress in Punta Arenas, Chile. Ignacio Gonzalez.
Eduardo Mödinger presentation to obtain B.S. in mechanical Engineering
Visit to Universidad de Concepción, Chile to interact with the research group of prof. Mangal.
Sergio Sauceda does his thesis in komatsu.
