Technical equipment
Conventional systems (in coop. with IFS)
- Powder flame spraying
- Wire flame spraying
- High velocity oxygen fuel spraying
- High velocity wire flame spraying
- Atmospheric Plasma Spraying (APS)
- Cold Gas Spraying (CGS)
- High Energy Ball Mill Zoz Simoloyer CM08-8l
- High energy ball mill Zoz Simoloyer CM01-2l / SiN
- Planetary ball mill Fritsch Pulverisette 5
Coating and edge-layer systems
- Robot-assisted electroplating plant
- Electroplating plant ERO
- Anodising plant MANZ
- Phosphating trainer
- Power sources
- Transient Recorder Yokogawa DL850
- Determination of the electrical conductivity of non-ferrous metals
- pH-value measuring device
- Coating thickness gauge
- Coating thickness tester according to the calotte grinding method (e.g. DIN EN 1071-2)
- X-ray fluorescence material analyser
- Colour and Gloss Meter BYK Gardener spectro-guide
- Gloss and coating thickness gauge BYK Gardener micro-TRI-gloss µ
Mechanical alloying (powder phase)
- High Energy Ball Mill Zoz Simoloyer CM08-8l
- High energy ball mill Zoz Simoloyer CM01-2l / SiN
- Planetary ball mill Fritsch Pulverisette 5
- Powder atomisation system
- AMC casting device
- Electric arc furnace (use via Professorship PVW)
- Spark plasma sintering system (SPS) (use via Professorship PVW)
- Various muffle and protective gas furnaces as well as quenching baths
Microstructure and microstructure investigations
- Materialographic preparation technique
- Electron microscopic preparation technique
- Light microscopic examination technique
- Quantitative microstructure analysis OLYMPUS a4i
- Micro hardness tester DURAMIN
- Recording hardness measurement FISCHERSCOPE HM2000 XYm
- Scanning electron microscope LEO1455VP with X-ray micro-range analysis EDAX GENESIS
- Field emission scanning electron microscope NEON40EsB with EDXS and EBSD
- Transmission electron microscope HITACHI H8100 with X-ray microrange analysis EDAX GENESIS
- Nanoindenter UNAT
Fatigue and crack propagation testing
- Resonance pulsator RUMUL - Wöhler tests
- Resonance pulsator RUMUL - crack propagation tests
- MTS Landmark (100kN) equipment - strain-controlled fatigue tests
Simulation software
- MatLab
- Mathcad
- Deform
- Fluent
- JMatPro
- ABAQUS
- ANSYS
- MemBrain
Testing facilities
- Model tests in the laboratory
- Boil test (intergranular and stress corrosion cracking test)
- Corrosion test chamber HK 400
- Potentiostat PS6 (determination of current density potential curves)
- Electrochemical MiniCell (ECMC)
- Pitting and crevice corrosion test, ASTM G48
- Climate test chamber
- Microcorrosion cell
- Corrosion test chamber HK 430
- 3-D profilometer
- pH-value measuring device
- X-ray fluorescence material analyser
- Colour and Gloss Meter BYK Gardener spectro-guide
Test benches
Analysis systems
