Security and defence facilities

CDS laboratory

Cranfield has a number of world-class and often unique facilities to support its activities within the field of security and defence

Analytical Facilities

  • Chromatography
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • NMR Spectroscopy
  • Spectroscopy
  • Thermal Analysis

Archaeological and Forensic Geophysics

  • Dual magnetometry array
  • Resistivity meters
  • Magnetic susceptibility
  • Ground probing radar

Biomechanics Laboratories

Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre (COTEC)

  • Ammunition Proofing
  • Bullet and Fragment Attack
  • Drop Testing and Spigot Intrusion
  • Explosives Trials
  • Flare Test Track
  • Fragmentation Trials
  • Fuel Fires
  • High Altitude Test Facility
  • Ordnance Proofing
  • Shaped Charge Jet Attack and Sympathetic Reaction
  • Slow Cook-off
  • Tunnel Range
  • UN Series 6c Bonfire
  • Vertical recovery

Explosive Test House

Radiation Facilities

  • Energy Dispersive X - ray Spectroscopy
  • Ion Beam Channelling
  • Large Cobalt 60 Gamma Radiation Source
  • MeV Ion Beam Analysis
  • Neutron Irradiation
  • Radiographic Non - Invasive Imaging
  • Small Cobalt 60 Gamma Radiation Source

Wind tunnels

 

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