
Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC)
Contacts
Staff

Barber-Tournaud
Executive Program Director
- terry@engr.uconn.edu
860.486.3576

Peter Menard
Technical Support
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- 860.486.5240

Melanie Noble
Staff
- melanie.noble@uconn.edu
860.486.2401

Raelene DeRobertis
Staff
- raelene.phillips@uconn.edu
860.486.1507

Mark Biron
Technical Support
- mab12053@engr.uconn.edu
860.486.0818
Faculty Scientific Advisers

Rainer Hebert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- IMS 013C
- rainer.hebert@uconn.edu
860.486.3155
Location
Campus Address
Innovative Partnership Building (IPB)
UConn Tech Park
Mailing Address
159 Discovery Drive
Storrs, CT 06269
Instrumentation

Wire Electrical Discharge Machining
CNC controlled. Removes parts from the build plate and performs finish machining

MRF Arc Melter
MRF arc-melter with single-crystal pulling option, gas purification, oxygen monitoring, vacuum casting

Furnace Rheometer
Viscosity measurements of liquid metals and alloys

LECO CS 844
Carbon-sulfur impurity analyzer

LECO ONH 836
Oxygen-nitrogen-hydrogen impurity analyzer

TA Instruments ODP 868
Optical determination of thermal expansion, melting, and sample flexure to 1,600 degrees celsius

TA Instruments EM DLF1600/2800 (Laser Flash)
DLF 1600 with 2800 environmental module for thermal diffusivity measurements

Camsizer XT
Powder size and shape distribution analysis

3DSystems ProX300
Laser-based metal additive manufacturing machine

EOS M270
EOS laser sintering system for the production of tooling inserts, prototype parts and end products directly in metal

Arcam Electron Beam Melting A2X Machine
Capable of manufacturing large, complex metal parts at high temperatures

Gleeble 3500
Gleeble 3500 with high-temperature mobile conversion unit and HydraWedge mobile conversion unit

Pegasus DSC
Differential scanning calorimeter designed for determination of thermodynamic properties of ceramics and metallic high-performance materials.

Agilent ICP 770
Chemical analysis of inorganic materials

IPG Laser Printer SLM
Laser-based metal additive manufacturing machine with vacuum, pre-heating, fully open architecture and configurable hardware options.
Services and Rates

Research and Design Assistance
The Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center offers:
- Assistance with rapid prototyping and testing
- Assistance with designing and developing complex parts for aerospace and biomedical devices
- Sponsored R&D of advanced materials having unique properties
- Custom training programs and workshops