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Design, prototyping and testing of electromechanical devices (CREDEM)

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Picture credit : Aurore Delsoir - Yvan Flamant

Technical and scientific expertise

  • Engineering advice and technical assistance at all stages of the design, manufacturing and performance assessment of a device, machine or experimental installation
  • Access to characterization facilities and equipment with the necessary technical support

Main equipment

  • Machining, rapid prototyping (3D printing, cutting), metrology, welding, sandblasting etc.
  • Data acquisition and control systems (NI LabView, Siemens SIMATIC, dSPACE, Texas Instruments DSPs etc.)
  • Fluid mechanics test facilities (aero tunnels, robotic towing tank, high-speed camera, PIV)
  • Characterization equipment (gas analyzers, power analyzer, thermal camera, laser Doppler vibrometer etc.)
  • Training benches (automation, electric motors and internal combustion engines, turbine, heat exchangers, flame propagation etc.)

Get an overview of the platform’s equipment, experimental facilities and prototypes via a virtual tour.

Applications

  • Mechatronics and biorobotics
  • Heat engines and combustion
  • Electrical power generation and transformation
  • Multibody systems and vehicle dynamics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Process engineering

Services available to

  • UCLouvain students and researchers
  • Non-UCLouvain parties

Testimonial

  • Mai 2024 - ELIA, Belgian's Electricity System Operator, about his collaboration with the CREDEM platform.

 

 

  • December 2022 - M. Charles Lhuillier, R&D engineer at AIRTHIUM, talks in a video about his collaboration with the CREDEM platform.

  • 16 September 2024
    Offshore wind turbines: CREDEM and LEMSC provide support for installation studies
    These new giants of the seas, with blades that can reach heights of 300 metres above the water, can be installed in moderately deep waters, such as in the North Sea, using monopiles: hollow metal cylinders over 10 metres in diameter and 40 metres tall, weighing more than 1,000 tonnes, driven into the seabed to support the wind turbine mast.
  • 30 May 2024
    Repairing electricity pylons: CREDEM innovates at ELIA's request!
    The CREDEM platform has developed a revolutionary device at the request of the Belgian's electricity system Operator ELIA, which enables several damaged pylons to be repaired in a single day.