Brought together within the ESCOMar platform, these testing facilities make it possible to study the behaviour and durability of materials and structures exposed to harsh marine and climatic environments: from accelerated ageing to instrumented monitoring, including the reproduction of real sea conditions.
Accelerating and characterising corrosion
Exposing specimens to a controlled saline atmosphere to study corrosion mechanisms and assess the resistance of materials and coatings: Salt spray corrosion chamber
Controlling climatic ageing
Precisely controlling temperature and humidity to simulate a wide range of climates and carry out thermal and humidity ageing tests.
- Large-capacity dual-climate chamber — Climats-tec
- Climate chamber — Memmert CTC256
- Constant climate chambers — Memmert HPP410
Measuring, tracking and monitoring
Instrumenting tests with high-resolution optical measurements and distributed strain and temperature sensing to characterise and monitor structures.