Metalforming West Facilities

The laboratory provides insight into metalforming processes. experimental data to check the validity of analyses, and the capability to explore new technologies on the laboratory level. The equipment is sufficiently small to conserve space, permit easy maintenance, and operate on a small budget. Because the data, rather than the material component, is the important product of our effort, each piece of equipment is highly instrumented to record the information desired. Information from laboratory scaled down workpiece, or from modeling material such as plasticine or lead, may be applied to a manufacturing scale or real material. Some of the equipment is listed next (linked to photograph): The Garage The Basement - Plasticine Modeling The Garage Two dies hot drawing of an 1/2 mil wire [highly instrumented] Display Desk The Draw Bench Foreman's Office Hydrostatic Extrusion The Basement The Tube Instrumented Extruder Plexiglass Tooling for Conventional and Hydrostatic Extrusion Plexiglass Window Extruder Extrudates - 1 Extrudates - 2 Extrudates - 3   Home | What's New | About MFI | FAQ | Prof. Avitzur | Publications | Consulting | Seminars | Tutorials | Research | Facilities | Misc | Contacting MFI | Site Map   Last Modified: Wednesday April 11 2007 These pages benefit from the use of a more recent browser. These pages make some use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and dynamic elements (JavaScript). Might we suggest Netscape Communicator v4.04? Copyright ©2003 Betzalel Avitzur. All rights reserved. Web Administrator: tal@coolmaps.com