MATLAB (MATerial LABoratory)

MATLAB is a virtual laboratory initiated to meet the willing of different laboratories spread through the EU to act as a unique structure, in order to offer the opportunity to a large amount of researchers coming from every part of the Community to perform their test campaigns.
Within this virtual lab it is possible to perform compatibility tests among different structural materials and heavy liquid metals such as Lead and Lead-bismuth.
The possible tests include tensile, fatigue, fracture toughness, creep and corrosion investigations on irradiated and unirradiated materials. The corrosion science laboratory, comprises both facilities for flowing liquid metal and facilities for stagnant tests.
For corrosion tests of un-irradiated materials, in flowing Lead and Lead-Bismuth, it comprises:

LECOR & CHOEPE III (ENEA, Italy)
COLONRI I&II (NRI, Czech Republic)
LINCE (CIEMAT, Spain)
CORRIDA (FZK, Germany)
CICLAD (CEA, France).

For testing irradiated materials (the first one) and unirradiated materials (the last two devices) in stagnant HLM are also available:

LIMETS I&II (SCK.CEN, Belgium),
COSTA 1-6 (FZK, Germany)
COLIMESTRA (CEA, France)