Located both on the Campus Région du Numérique in Charbonnières-les-Bains and on Centrale Lyon's two campuses, SURFAB is a platform based on the research activities of the LTDS, which brings together Centrale Lyon and Manutech-USD, with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. It offers companies and academic institutions technical and scientific resources in the field of additive manufacturing and surface engineering using ultra-short laser processes.
Research challenges:
- Produce materials through additive manufacturing
- Confer functional properties to surfaces through texturing, engraving and cutting using femtosecond lasers
- Characterize surfaces (topography, mechanical properties, chemical properties) in relation to their functionalities
- Support, in terms of training and innovation, companies from product design through to definition of the industrial process and its integration into the value chain
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Application areas:
Production of technical and chemical-free parts for the automotive (anti-fog windshields), aeronautics (anti-icing surfaces), consumer goods (water-repellent textiles), etc.
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Instrumentation available on all three campuses:
- Additive manufacturing machines, including one hybridized with a multi-axis machining system
- Two femtosecond lasers, for micromachining, marking and texturing surfaces including a demonstrator associated with a robot arm
- Mechanical, physico-chemical and topographical surface characterization devices including a multi-scale surface morphological characterization device enabling roughness analysis of circular and large industrial parts
The SURFAB research and innovation plant
Associated partners:
- Centrale Lyon
- Groupement d'Intérêt Économique (GIE) Manutech USD
