Services

We offer services for all material groups in the following areas of materials science and engineering:

Metallography / Materialography

• Micrograph preparation
• Light and electron microscopy (LM and SEM)
• Digital image analysis / Quantitative microstructure evaluation
• Chemical composition (EDX)
• Computer tomography (CT)
• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF)
• Infrared spectroscopy (IR)
• Electrochemical corrosion testing
• Salt spray test

Mechanical materials testing

• Micro- and macro-hardness testing
• Tensile test
• High-temperature and high-speed tensile test
• Fatigue test
• Resonance and ultrasonic fatigue
• High temperature fatigue
• Corrosion fatigue
• Rapid fatigue test method
• Rotating bending and alternating bending test, torsion test
• Low cycle fatigue – Very high cycle fatigue (LCF – VHCF)
• Furnace systems for high-temperature tests
• Corrosion chambers for corrosion tests

Physical measurement methods for condition monitoring

• Measuring systems for process and product assessment
• Mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical, acoustic sensors
• Extensometer / Video extensometer
• Thermal camera systems
• Direct current and alternating current potential drop probes (DCPD, ACPD)
• Eddy current testing and Barkhausen noise
• Digital image correlation (DIC)
• High-frequency impulse measurement (HFIM)

Methods for damage evolution and (residual) lifetime calculation

• Prediction of performance and lifetime

Mechanism-oriented modelling and simulation of material behaviour

• Coupling of process parameters with microstructure analyses and property spectra
• Quantitative description of process-structure-property relationships
• Influence of defects on local properties (Effects of defects)

Consulting on material selection and application

Damage analysis

In addition to research and development (R&D) contracts, we offer acceptance tests and expert opinions.