- Address
Cittadella della Ricerca
S.s. Appia Km 706,03
72100BrindisiBR
Italy
Description
CETMA is a non-for-profit Research and Technology Organization. It carries out independent research activities and provides advanced services to enterprises (specially small and medium ones) and to public institutions.
CETMA is coordinator of CETMA-DIHSME, one of 13 Italian European Digital Innovation Hubs, and is a territorial node for the Enterprise Europe Network.
As of 2024, it has more than 1400 innovation services to companies, mostly SMEs, and has 40 European projects under its belt, 16 of which are ongoing this year.
It is a multidisciplinary center and is organized in three Departments:
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Advanced Materials Engineering Department
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Computer Engineering Department
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Industrial Design Department
Its expertise concerning Materials Engineering includes carbon fiber composites, other polymer composites, polymeric materials, ceramic and ceramic composite materials, bio-based materials, and shape memory alloys, with a special expertise on recycling of waste materials.
In Computer Engineering, its expertise includes developing software for industrial and engineering applications, for Advanced Visual Systems using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and for robotics and automation applications including e-health applications.
The Industrial Design Department is experienced in all phases of Product Development, including skills for ergonomic analysis and for marketing analysis.
CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials
CETMA - European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials
Contact Person
Marco Alvisi
Equipment
Material and component characterization equipments
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Universal Testing Machine for mechanical testing on materials and components
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HDT- VICAT fordetermination of Equipment for measurement of Heat Deflection Temperature (HDT) and of Vicat Softening Temperature
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HPLC - High-pressure liquid chromatography
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GPC - Gel permeation chromatography
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Thermal Conductivity λ-Meter
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Optical Flexmeter and horizontal optical dilatometer
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Contact angle analysis
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Automatic hydraulic systems for static and low frequency dynamic tests on building materials
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Climatic chamber
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Infrared thermo-camera
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Ultrasonic Equipment
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Polling system for FBG sensors for monitoring of components and structures.
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Optical Backscatter Reflectometer for monitoring of components and structures.
Material Processes equipments
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Compression Molding Pilot line
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Induction welding
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RTM (Resin Transfer Molding)
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Industrial Electrical Vacuum Oven
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Rotational Moulding Laboratory line
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Equipments for the preparation of building materials and the test at fresh and hardened state
Product Design and Engineering equipments
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Software Suites For Finite Element, Structural Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics
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CAD suites
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3D Printers
Virtual Reality Equipments
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Virtual Reality Center
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DUNE©.cube – INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATOR SPACE
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DUNE©.suite – Software suite for virtual reality
ICT & Multimedia Equipments
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Audio/Video Equipment
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Software/Hardware for post-production 3D /Video
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Software for editing, 3D animation and modeling, audio and video post-production, authoring DVD
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Portable 3D Scanner
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Software Suite for development of web, mobile and desktop applications
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Parallel High Power GRID Computing Access Gate (ENEA-CRESCO)
- Equipment Link
- http://www.cetma.it/
Services
Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, CETMA provides a very large range of services to enable SMEs´ use of advanced technologies:
- Development and Process of Advanced Materials
- Materials Characterizations
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Numerical Simulation of complex phenomena
- Product Design & Engineering
- 3D printing and prototyping
- Software for Robotics, Automation and Control Systems
- Software for Information Systems and Knowledge Management
- New Product Market Analysis & Business Planning
- Training
- Innovation management
- Contract Research
- Services Link
- CETMA Services