INS Developments - INS-Usure - INS-wear - INS-Tribo

Our comprehensive equipment gives us the possibility to fully characterize your samples and also to qualify our own solutions.

Inductively Coupled Plasma with Optical Emission Spectrometer SPECTRO ICP/ OES : identification and dosage of the chemical elements of a sample.
Particle Size Analyzer by laser diffraction CILAS : measurement of distribution of particles from 40nm.
Thermo Gravimetric Analyzer TGA-SDTA Mettler-Toledo : study of behavior concerning a sample in temperature in order to detect steps of transitions or temperature chemical reactions such as corrosion. Temperature max. 1600°C.
Fourrier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy FTIR Perkin Elmer : determination of chemical functions present in the sample in order to deduce the formula of the analyzed compound.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography HPLC Perkin Elmer : separation and identification of a solution components.
Humidity & Salt Spray test chamber for validation of anti corrosion treatments.
Standards equipments: dynamic viscosity measurement, water titration, grease consistency measurement…

Our specific equipments enable us to characterize the surface of a customer part or a tribology sample.

Optical microscopes x400 and x1000 with camera coupled with analysis software.
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with EDS Probe, allowing to image the sample surface up to x60000.

The EDS probe determines the elements present on the surface.
Micro topography through Atomic Force Microscope allowing to topography a surface at a nanometrical scale.

Two laboratories where we can compose whatever type of formulations :

In order to do that, we have at our disposal :

These equipments enable us to reproduce the contact conditions and to test the solutions we work on.

“CETR research modular tribometer allowing to reproduce multi contacts. For example: Pin-on-Disk ; Plate-on-Plate ; Disk-on-Disk ;
Rolling / Sliding, Pin and vee block (Falex), Block on ring (Timkem), 4 balls, SRV.
All specific configuration may be studied on demand.

This equipment has an acoustic emission probe, a continuous measurement of the wear trace depth and a measurement of electrical contact resistance.
CETR research Pin-on-Disk tribometer for tests in temperature up to 1100°C. This tribometer can work under shear gas atmosphere.
4-ball testing machine
FZG testing machine
Timken testing machine
SRV-Optimol alternative tribometer for fretting applications
Lofficial ball-on-plate alternative tribometer for more lasting high load courses.
Amsler tribometer
Chain wear test bench.