Services
We offer the following services:
Metallography and microanalysis
- Micrograph preparation
- Light and electron microscopy (LiMi, SEM, FIB-SEM)
- Digital image analysis
- Chemical composition (EDX, OES)
- Computer tomography (CT)
- X-ray diffraction (XRD)
- X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF)
- Infrared spectroscopy (IR)
- Electrochemical corrosion testing
- Salt spray test
Mechanical material testing
- Hardness test
- Tensile test
- Impact and tearing test
- Fatigue test, uniaxial and multiaxial
- Short-term strength to fatigue strength (LCF-VHCF)
- Temperature, corrosion and hydrogen environment
- Torsion, rotating bending and alternating bending test
- Short-term test procedure and statistical evaluation
- Electro-mechanical, servo-hydraulic, resonance and ultrasonic testing systems
- Furnaces, temperature, climate and corrosion chambers
Metrological condition monitoring
- Extensometer, video extensometer
- Digital image correlation (DIC)
- Camera and thermal camera systems
- Direct current and alternating current potential probes (DCPD, ACPD)
- Barkhausen noise
- Eddy current testing
- Acoustic emission
- High-frequency impulse measurement
Evaluation of lifetime and damage tolerance
- Influence of defects on performance (Effects of defects)
- Process-structure-property interactions
- Determination of (remaining) service life
Material modeling and simulation
Consulting and failure analysis
In addition to research and development (R&D) contracts, we offer acceptance tests and expert opinions.