MRI & NMR

The MRI and NMR tools present at Laboratoire Navier are extremely powerful tools to measure the local water content and its physico-chemical environment (confinement, ...), or even to obtain local velocity maps in opaque liquids under flow.

X-ray Microtomography

Laboratoire Navier possesses an X-ray microtomography setup with two interchangeable X-ray sources and two swappable collectors.

Optical Tweezers

We have recently purchased a state-of-the-art optical tweezer setup to investigate divided matter at the particle scale.

Geotechnical Tests

Mechanical tests

This platform allows the characterization of a wide spectrum of materials and structural components under different types of loads.

Microstructural analysis

The Navier laboratory has an Axiovert Z1 microscope, which includes a part for confocal microscopy and a part for inverted microscopy coupled to a CCD camera.

High-Performance Computing Solutions

Intensive numerical simulations are undertaken on a computer cluster composed of 4 Xeon E7-4860 v2 (2.6 GHz, 12 cores each) CPUs equipped with 1 TiB of RAM.

Digital manufacturing

Design and manufacture of experimental devices

A team is responsible for the design, manufacture, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure elements and experimental devices.

Rheometry

Laboratoire Navier houses several high-end, stress-imposed rheometers and a comprehensive set of geometries for rheological studies.

Nano-indentation

The Navier laboratory houses a nano-indentation device to test mechanicals properties of materials at microscopic scale.