Cases

Classification of OCAS outdoor exposure site

In addition to being a test site for long term outdoor exposure for test samples, OCAS has been monitoring the necessary weather conditions in order to classify this outdoor exposure…

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Outdoor soil corrosion site now available

To better predict the lifetime of coated structures, OCAS is now capable of getting data from both its outdoor exposure site as well as from its brand new outdoor soil…

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Coating solutions for wire covering your needs

Mastering both surface pre-treatment as well as plating, OCAS's experts provide coating solutions for different types of wire.

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Corrosion modelling tool facilitates smart metallic coating design

Metallic coating development takes a long time and is expensive because of the long-term corrosion testing in both lab and outdoor conditions. So, simulation-assisted engineering could lead to significant acceleration…

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APT as an “enabler” to better understand functional properties based on 3D-nanoscale information

Atom Probe Tomography is the most appropriate technique for 3D-nanometrology, i.e. the characterisation of both nanoscale structures (down to atom-size resolution) and their chemical composition in real 3D-space.

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ECA seminar attracts participants from various industrial sectors

The Metal Structures Centre - a consortium of OCAS, the Belgium Welding Institute and Soete's lab of Ghent University - hosted and organised, together with Tacon, a seminar on the…

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Raising our hydrogen research to the next level

Since 2005, OCAS has been building up hydrogen research competence systematically in order to serve the needs related to modern technological developments, i.e. hydrogen as an energy vector, the industrialisation…

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Is a crack the end of life?

Many structures and components are used longer than their design life, or operate in conditions different from what was originally expected. As consequence, defects like cracks can be present and…

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Superior analytical performance for elemental analysis

XRF is an analytical technique which can determine the chemical composition of solids, liquids and powders. It has a wide range of applications and a linearity from ppm to %…

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New carbon evaporator ticks all the boxes

OCAS's old carbon evaporator has recently been replaced by a brand new high vacuum coater.

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Flawless cross section sample preparation

In addition to mechanical polishing and focused ion beam sample preparation, this new cross polisher will extend OCAS's sampling techniques. Especially for use with our SEM, EPMA and EBSD.

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Automated parameter screening boosts corrosion testing

Corrosion studies often leave a gap between electrochemical or accelerated tests and natural exposure. This is due to the complexity of the passivation and dissolution processes that occur at the…

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Benefit from the full potential of OCAS’s multi-disciplinary approach in surface engineering

OCAS's multi-disciplinary approach in surface engineering assures the link between fundamental knowledge and applied research concerning corrosion & coatings and beyond.

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Getting tough with austenite

The key to the properties of steel grades lies within their microstructure. So, metallurgists are very keen to know how the microstructure looks like in order to improve the properties…

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