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.