Technical equipment
Thermal spraying
- Atmospheric Plasma Spraying (APS)
- High-Velocity Oxy-Fuel Spraying (HVOF)
- Cold Gas Spraying (CGS)
- Arc wire spraying (AWS)
- Powder flame spraying (PFS)
- Motion Pro Y4 high-speed camera
- GTV NIR sensor
- Oseir SprayWatch/Highwatch
- Optris Xi 80 Thermal Imaging Camera
- Melting and ultrasonic atomisation plant (Amazemet rePowder System)
- Alloy production in an electric arc furnace
- Powder production using the plasma module via wire or rod atomisation, as well as by the crucible process for melting temperatures< 1000 °C
- Anton Paar Ultrapyc 7000 Micro gas pycnometer
- X-ray fluorescence element analyser (FISCHERSCOPE X-RAY XAN, Bruker M4 Tornado)
- Oxygen/Nitrogen/Hydrogen Analysis – ELTRA ONH-p2
- xTool F2 laser engraver (model MXF-K005-002)
Coating and edge-layer systems
- Plant for plasma electrolytic oxidation PEO
- Anodising plant MANZ
- Electroplating plant ERO
- Robot-assisted electroplating plant
- Phosphating trainer
- Colour and Gloss Meter BYK Gardener spectro-guide
- Gloss and coating thickness gauge BYK Gardener micro-TRI-gloss µ
- ICP-OES
- pH-value measuring device
- X-ray fluorescence material analyser
- Coating thickness gauge
- Transient Recorder Yokogawa DL850
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
- Retsch RS 200 Disc Vibrating Mill
- Laboratory muffle furnace up to 1000 °C with a crucible capacity of 1 l
- 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
- MTS Landmark 50 kN servo-hydraulic universal testing machine
- SincoTec Power Rotabend 100 Nm rotational bending test machine
- RUMUL Testronic 20 & 100 kN Resonance Testing Machine
Simulation software
- ABAQUS/CAE (Finite Element Analysis)
- ANSYS
- COMSOL Multiphysics
- DEFORM-HT (FEM for heat treatment simulations)
- fe-safe (life cycle analysis software for FEM)
- Fluent
- JMatPro
- MatLab
- Mathcad
- MemBrain
- Tosca (Structural and flow optimisation based on FEA and CFD simulations)
Testing facilities
- Climate test chamber
- Corrosion test chamber HK 400
- Corrosion test chamber HK 430
- Pitting and crevice corrosion test, ASTM G48
- Microcorrosion cell
- Meinsberg PS6 Potentiostat
- Zahner IM6, Zennium and Zennium X potentiostats
- 3-D profilometer
- pH-value measuring device
- X-ray fluorescence material analyser
- Colour and Gloss Meter BYK Gardener spectro-guide
