TPU opened test center of materials for aircraft, space and the Arctic

TOMSK, Dec 20 – RIA Tomsk, Karina Sapunova. The international network scientific and educational center of resource tests of materials which was opened on Tuesday at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will allow to check durability materials for spaceships, planes and devices intended for work in the Arctic, the rector of TPU Petr Chubik reported at the opening ceremony of the center.

According to the higher education institution, the new center is continuation of the project of creation of the innovative engineering center for cross-disciplinary problems of materials science based on TPU. Within the project the Modern Production Technologies and Multi-level Dynamic Modeling of Materials and Designs centers were created in 2015 in higher education institution.

"2016 comes to the end, and we finish creation of the center – the engineering center for new materials. We finished a full cycle that new perspective materials and products of them would be in our life", – Chubik told.

He specified that it is possible to carry out tests of new materials, including composite, in the new center which can be used in space, the Arctic, for creation of deep-sea submersibles and aviaconstruction. The casing of the minisatellite which was launched to TPU anniversary in 2016 passed tests on the equipment installed at the center, – the first spacecraft which casing is printed with the 3D-printer.

As the director of the Institute of Physics of High Technologies  of TPU Alexey Yakovlev added, it is planned to use the equipment of the center in the near future, in particular, for creation of new heat resisting ceramic materials for aircraft engines – this project is studied with the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials now.

The center is created with the assistance of the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science and Indian BiSS Ltd company which provided the equipment. According to TPU, costs for creation of the new center are estimated at 30 million rubles.