Services

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

Metallography and microanalysis

• Micrograph preparation
• Light and electron microscopy (LiMi, SEM, FIB-SEM)
• Digital image analysis
• 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 material testing

• Hardness test
• Tensile test
• High-speed tensile test
• Fatigue test, uniaxial and multiaxial
• Low to very high cycle fatigue (LCF-VHCF)
• Temperature and corrosion fatigue
• Torsion, rotating bending and alternating bending test
• Efficient test procedures and statistical evaluations
• Electro-mechanical, Servo-hydraulic, resonance and ultrasonic testing systems
• Furnaces, temperature, climate and corrosion chambers

Metrological material condition monitoring

• Extensometer, video extensometer
• Digital image correlation (DIC)
• Camera and thermal camera systems
• Direct current and alternating current potential probes
• Barkhausen noise
• Eddy current testing
• Acoustic emission
• High-frequency impulse measurement

Evaluation of damage evolution and tolerance

• Influence of defects on local properties (Effects of defects)
• Process-structure-property-damage interactions
• Determination of performance capability and (remaining) service life

Mechanism-based material modeling and simulation

Consulting on material selection and application

Failure analysis

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