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The Vitreous Materials Laboratory (LaMaV) started in 1977 and has now a comprehensive set of glass testing equipment and experienced personal.

Numerous testing and development work have been carried out for Brazilian companies dealing with glass, ceramic, metallurgical and optical industries. In this occasion we open our doors to offer services to international companies.

To give an idea of the excellency gained throughout the years, several national and international prizes have been awarded to members of the LaMaV team:

  • "Foster Research Prize in Glass Technology" (1982) - The University of Sheffield Senate, UK.
  • "Brazilian Ceramic Society Award" (1983) - São Paulo - Brazil.
  • "Zachariasen Award" (1990) - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, for a series of articles published between 1987-1989, Amsterdam - Holland.
  • "Honorable Mention" (1992) - Brazilian Association of Automated Glass Industries (ABIVidro), São Paulo - Brazil.
  • "Vittorio Gottardi Prize" (1993) - International Commission on Glass, for a collection of papers published between 1982-1992, Charleroi, Belgium.
  • Winner of the "First National Context of Educational and Technological Software" (1994) - MEC / IBM, Brasília - Brazil.
  • "Honorable Mention - 3º Concurso Peão da Tecnologia de São Carlos" (1995) - Fundação Parque de Alta Tecnologia de São Carlos, for a series of works with impact on glass and ceramics industries, São Carlos - Brazil.
  • "Honorable Mention - XXIII National Contest Prêmio Governador do Estado" (1996) - Brazilian Invention, for the patent "Giz Cerâmico Anti-Alérgico, Macio e Durável", São Paulo - Brazil.
  • "Best Poster" (1998) - presented at the 3rd. Brazilian Symposium on Glasses and Related Materials, Bonito - Brazil.
  • "Honorable Mention" (1999) - 43th Meeting of the Brazilian Ceramic Society, Florianópolis - Brazil.

SERVICES OFFERED

  • Physical properties determination
  • On-line patent and literature search
  • Properties data search on specific databases
  • Development of new glasses and glass-ceramics
  • Short courses on glass

CLIENTS

Consultancy - Research & Development Projects to:

  • Darvas-Equipamentos Eletro-Médicos: Heat absorbing glass
  • Astra-Brasil: chemical toughening of borosilicate glasses
  • Nadir Figueiredo Ind. e Com. S.A.: reformulation of stone-ware
  • Corning Inc.: market survey of advanced ceramics
  • Companhia Vale do Rio Doce: market survey of quartz powder
  • Tigrefibras: asbestos replacement in fiber-cements products
  • Cecrisa Revestimentos Cerâmicos S.A.: reformulation of cordierite ceramics 
  • Brastemp: development of ceramic insulators
  • Carborundum do Brasil: mechanical behaviour of SiC
  • Pirelli Fibras Óticas: development of silica glass via sol-gel
  • Cia. Vidraria Santa Marina: chemical toughening of glass plates
  • ABC Xtal Fibras Óticas: characterization of devitrification of optical preforms
  • Usiminas: glass-ceramic development
  • Wheaton: impact properties of glass
  • CBPM - Companhia Baiana de Pesquisa Mineral: use of nepheline in soda-lime-silica glass
  • DVB - Vidros Temperados: fracture of tempered glass
  • Spall: development of a ceramic reformulation software
  • Maximiliano Gaidzinski S.A.: tiles development
  • Alcoa S.A.: Alumina in different glasses
  • UBV: characterization of glass defects 

Glass samples and Physical Chemical Testing to:

  • UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • IFSC-USP - Instituto de Física de São Carlos
  • IF-USP - Instituto de Física
  • PUC-RJ - Pontifícia Universidade Católica
  • CCDM - Centro de Caracterização e Desenvolvimento de Materiais
  • Smar
  • Nadir Figueiredo Ind. Com. S.A.
  • AllLux
  • Faber Castell
  • Aginomoto Biolatina
  • Sobral Invicta S.A.
  • M. Agostini
  • Mineração Mamoré
  • Cristais Hering
  • Pilkinton
  • Mellita do Brasil
  • Sand
  • Thomson Tube Components BHte Ltda.
  • UBV
  • ST. GOBAIN VIDROS
  • ABB LTDA

Short Courses on Glass and Ceramics to:

  • Alcoa
  • Saffram
  • Usiminas
  • NGK
  • Petrobrás
  • Oxiteno
  • IBM
  • Celite
  • ABC - Brazilian Ceramic Society
  • Santa Marina
  • UBV

EQUIPMENT

Available at LaMaV:

·  3 Botton load furnaces (up to 1750 ºC)

·  1 Sintering furnace (up to 1750 ºC)

·  1 Melting furnace (up to 1600 ºC)

·  Platinum and ceramic (ZAS, Alumina) crucibles

·  Several molds and working tools

·  13 Heat treatment furnaces (up to 1100 ºC)

·  Glass cutting and polishing equipment

·  2 Abbe refractometers

·  1 Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR)

·  1 UV-VIS spectrometer

·  1 Dilatometer (1375 ºC)

·  6 Optical microscopes

·  1 Optical bench with microhardness tester

·  1 Viscometer for: 2 < Log (viscosity) < 5 [Pas] (1600 ºC)

·  2 Viscometer for: 6 < Log (viscosity) < 12 [Pas] (1050 ºC)

·  X-ray diffractometer

·  1 Dynamic mechanical thermal analyzer, DMTA (800 ºC)

·  2 Hot stage microscopes (1500 ºC)

·  1 Complex impedance analyzer

·  1 Differential scanning calorimeter (1500 ºC)

·  1 Density Comparator AGR

·  1 Helium picnometer

·  1 Metler Toledo balance with density determination kit

We also have a special agreement with the Materials Characterization & Development Center (CCDM) which has the following state-of-art equipment:

·  Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR)

·  D 5000 X-ray diffraction system

·  400 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

·  Inductively coupled plasma system (ICP)

·  Thermal analyzer system (TGA-DTA-DSC)

·  Helium picnometer

·  Image analyzer system

·  Scanning electron microscope (SEM)

·  Surface spectromicroscope with XPS, AES, SAM and ISS

 

For more information please contact dedz@power.ufscar.br

 

Contact Address

Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais

LaMaV - Laboratório de Materiais Vítreos

Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235

13565-905 - São Carlos - SP - Brazil

Tel: +55-16-33518556

FAX: +55-16-33615404

General Information: dedz@power.ufscar.br

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LaMaV - Vitreous Materials Laboratory

Since 22 March, 1998.

Last update: 10 August, 2008