CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials

Type

Research Center

Address

Cittadella della Ricerca
S.s. Appia Km 706,03
72100 Brindisi BR
Italy

Description

CETMA is a no-profit Research and Technology Organization. It carries out independent research activities and provides advanced services to enterprises (specially small and medium ones) and to public institutions.

It is a multidisciplinary center and is organized in three Department:

Advanced Materials Engineering Department
Computer Engineering Department
Industrial Design Department

Its expertise concerning Materials Engineering are about carbon fiber composites, other polymer composites, polymeric materials, ceramic and ceramic composite materials, bio-based materials, shape memory alloys. A special expertise is about recycling of waste materials.

In Computer Engineering its expertise are about developing software for industrial and engineering applications, for Advanced Visual Systems using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and for robotics and automation applications including e-health applications.

Industrial Design Department is experienced in all phases of Product Development, including skills for ergonomic analysis and for marketing analysis.

CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials

Contact Person

Luigi BARONE

General Manager

E-mail

luigi.barone@cetma.it

massimiliano.chionna@cetma.it

is SME contact

Equipment

Material and component characterization equipments

Universal Testing Machine for mechanical testing on materials and components
HDT- VICAT fordetermination of Equipment for measurement of Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT) and of Vicat Softening Temperature
HPLC - High-pressure liquid chromatography
GPC - Gel permeation chromatography
Thermal Conductivity λ-Meter
Optical Flexmeter and horizontal optical dilatometer
Contact angle analysis
Automatic hydraulic systems for static and low frequency dynamic tests on building materials
Climatic chamber
Infrared thermo-camera
Ultrasonic Equipment
Polling system for FBG sensors for monitoring of components and structures.
Optical Backscatter Reflectometer for monitoring of components and structures.

Material Processes equipments

Compression Molding Pilot line
Induction welding
RTM (Resin Transfer Molding)
Industrial Electrical Vacuum Oven
Rotational Moulding Laboratory line
Equipments for the preparation of building materials and the test at fresh and hardened state

Product Design and Engineering equipments

Software Suites For Finite Element, Structural Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics
CAD suites
3D Printers

Virtual Reality Equipments
Virtual Reality Center
DUNE©.cube – INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATOR SPACE
DUNE©.suite – Software suite for virtual reality

ICT & Multimedia Equipments
Audio/Video Equipment
Software/Hardware for post-production 3D /Video
Software for editing, 3D animation and modeling, audio and video post-production, authoring DVD
Portable 3D Scanner
Software Suite for development of web, mobile and desktop applications
Parallel High Power GRID Computing Access Gate (ENEA-CRESCO)