They are world class in experimentation and diagnostics of thermal plasma sprays. Capabilities to measure sprayed particle surface temperature and evaporation in flight are remarkable. Coatings produced from their research include thermal barrier, wear resistant and corrosion resistant coatings of various ceramics. They also study plasma ejected during laser impingement on metals and laser chemical vapor deposition. The Laboratory of Mechanics and Technology, at a French university in Cachan specializes in research of damage mechanics for sophisticated aerospace materials.
Materials tested include high temperature metals for turbine disks and carbon-carbon composites.
Fast Ion Beam Laser Spectroscopy, Rydberg excitation spectroscopy, and new solid state laser material development. The Military Branch of Matra, a large French industrial conglomerate is located in Velizy Villacublay, a southeast suburb of Paris. This modification significantly increased the robustness and computational efficiency of the code. Professor R.A. McD. Galgraith at Glasgow University has an outstanding experimental facility for the study of unsteady aerodynamics. He is able to produce sinusoidal, sawtooth, or any other airfoil pitching motion.