Let’s break through everything! KBSU buys new high-tech equipment

Destructive testing laboratory of the Center for Advanced Materials and Additive Technologies of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H.M. Berbekov received a new high-tech crash machine to break and tear all the created polymers. And about. Svetlana Khashirova, KBSU Vice-Rector for Research, commented:

«The machine allows you to significantly expand the range of studying the operational properties of polymeric materials — to study their strength and other mechanical characteristics in the range from -70 to + 250 °C.

Because Since we are developing materials that can be used in outer space, in the Arctic, medicine and other areas, we need to have the most complete information about the characteristics of the materials used. The testing machine allows you to do this. In addition, studying the properties of materials under extreme conditions is very important so that we can know how durable, wear-resistant, and durable the materials we use are. Every year more stringent requirements are put forward for polymer materials, and we need to know whether our materials meet them. We are constantly working to improve the properties of polymers. And thanks to the new equipment, we will control whether we modernize the received materials correctly».

The scientist added that the testing machine, designed to measure the strength during mechanical testing of samples of plastics, metals and other materials in tensile mode under various temperature conditions, was purchased by the university as part of the implementation of the strategic project «KBSU — integrator of the development of polymer additive technologies» of the program «Priority 2030». Igor Ugnenko, General Director of YUJIENLAB TEST LLC, who is engaged in commissioning tests of the machine at KBSU, speaking about its technical characteristics, emphasized:

«The device is unique in that it allows stretching and compressing material samples with a load of up to five tons. Moreover, both in a normal atmosphere and in a thermal chamber, in which we can set various temperature conditions. Ultimate loads give us information about how good a material is. Superconstructive materials are just created under such extreme conditions. And this device allows you to find their threshold capabilities and improve them».

As Svetlana Khashirova noted, in order to improve materials and technologies, the Center for Advanced Materials and Technologies of KBSU cooperates with advanced research institutes and enterprises from almost all over the country.

«Our main strategic partner JSC «Composite» is the leading materials research enterprise of Roscosmos. We cooperate with the Federal Research Center for Problems of Chemical Physics and Medical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and other universities and institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On the basis of our center, advanced training courses in the field of additive technologies for scientists from different regions of Russia are held. This is another reason why KBSU should have the most modern, best equipment.

But the main thing is that we have many different areas of research related to the development of polymers, composites of various classes used in additive technologies, in particular, in the aerospace industry, the oil industry, medicine, and so on. And thanks to participation in the Priority 2030 program, the range and level of research on these materials is expanding».

Translated by Gekkieva J.A.