Noteworthy Activities and Equipment

  • Multi-channel automatic switching resistivity meters and inversion software for underground imaging
  • Seismic acquisition systems and associated acquisition and processing software for underground imaging
  • Equipment and software necessary for the production and exploitation of vibration measurements
  • Vibrating table tests: standard or “turn-key” tests
  • Cone calorimeter for reaction to fire tests
  • CFAST and FDS software to simulate fires in buildings
  • “Predictor-LimA” Software (SoftNoise) for acoustic expertise
  • WinSource® software to characterise the consequences of the accidental release of a flammable and/or toxic substance, in terms of explosion, BLEVE, toxic dispersion, etc.
  • For metabonomic studies: proton NMR spectroscopy (Bruker Avance 500 MHz Spectrometre), SIMCAP multivariate

  • analysis software + ChenomX for the identification of metabolites of interest
  • Dry chemistry analyser for measuring clinical chemistry parameters in blood and urine
  • Analytical equipment: icp-AES, anion chromatography, COT meters, HPLC with various detectors and GC-MS, multiparametric field probes
  • Knelson centrifugal gravimetric concentrator
  • Development of in vitro chambers in pulsatile flows (patent deposited: EP2779144A1)
  • Operational tools for modelling and analysing the atmospheric dispersion of pollutants
  • Identification of metal alloys (FluoX)
  • High-performance computers for the modelling of structural, optical and electronic properties of materials
  • Ageing and corrosion tests
  • Electrochemical techniques (polarisation curves, EIS, SVET, SECM, DEA)
  • Gas analysers
  • Diagnosis of plasmas by energy and time-resolved mass spectrometry, LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence), electrostatic probe, absorption and optical emission, etc.