Analysis, Characterisation, and Processing Laboratory (LACaMI)
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Picture credits : Aurore Delsoir - Yvan Flamant
Technical and scientific expertise
- Chemical and metallographic analysis of materials
- Material processing: rolling, coatings, friction
- Friction stir welding
- 3D metal printing
- Measurement of thermal properties: Seebeck coefficient, conductivity
- Sample machining: EDM
Main equipment
- Optical and electronic microscopes (EBSD, EDS)
- 3D printers
- Metal atomisers
- X-ray diffractometer
- Inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (ICP)
- IR C/S analyser
- Casting furnace
- Tomographs
Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.
Applications
- Characterisation/testing/analysis by qualified personnel
- Chemical analysis of solids, liquids, gases in materials and chemical processes
- Analysis of failure mechanisms
- Processing of metallic materials, from melting to atomisation, through 3D printing and heat treatment
- Characterisation from nm to mm using microscopy and tomography
Services available to
- UCLouvain students and researchers
- Non-UCLouvain parties
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2 June 2025The LACAMI and WINFAB platforms contribute to the creation of a new anti-corrosion super materialWith the support of the LACAMI and WINFAB platforms, a team from UCLouvain has developed a new type of coating with exceptional mechanical properties, which holds great promise for use in environments combining corrosion, erosion, wear and mechanical stress. -
11 June 2024Materials seen on a nanometer scale: LACAMI acquires a new high-resolution transmission electron microscopeA millimeter is already small. So imagine a nanometer: it's one millionth of a millimeter... The LACAMI platform has just acquired a new high-resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM) co-financed by the Grand Equipement-FNRS call, UCLouvain and UNamur. -
1 December 2022Composites: a world first to measure deformations at the nanoscale !This new method will hopefully help shed light on the local deformation and fracture behaviour of composites at the fibre scale, which is crucial for designing accurate finite element models of these materials throughout the lengthscales.