Infrastructure
The Coastal & Ocean Basin (COB) (COB) KU Leuven
With a wave pool and a towing tank, the new maritime research centre in Ostend stimulates the work of academic researchers and companies alike. The centre tests scale models of breakwaters, offshore wind turbines, artificial reefs and blue energy installations, but also of ships – and this for both sea and inland navigation.
High-Tech Saltwater Wave Flume (Saltwater Wave flume) Ghent University
The high-tech saltwater wave flume, is integrated in the multidisciplinary marine and maritime research facility of Ghent University at Ostend Science Park (OSP). It bridges the gap between small-scale, artificial lab studies and complex, multidisciplinary, expensive field studies, bringing the ocean into the laboratory and engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health. This contrasts the majority of the wave flumes, which are often only focussed on maritime engineering disciplines and rarely bridge the gap to life science. This flume combines 3 crucial ...
In-Situ microscopic observation of plastic deformation of metals tested under variable condition (UHR-FEG-SEM) Ghent University
The intention is to employ the infrastructure for in-situ observation of metallic microstructures during heat treatments (up to 1,000°C) combined or not with plastic deformation. Plastic deformation is performed in the microscope with a sample holder specially designed for this purpose that allows subjecting a metal sample (with dimension in the size-order of mm) to a tensile load (with maximum force of 5,000 N). The same sample holder also allows the sample to be heated to a temperature of ~700°C. In addition, a separate sample holder is also provided that allows the sample to be heated ...