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.