At the Institute of Materials Science, we examine different materials for a wide variety of properties
Equipment
Metallography
- Diamond wire saw from Well
- Precision cutting machine Brillant from QATM
- Precision cutting machine Secotom from Struers
- Hot mounting press Prontopress from Struers
- Grinding and polishing machines LaboSystem from Struers
- Electropolishing machine LectroPol from Struers
Light Optical Microscopy
- Zeiss Axiophot
- Reichert Univar
- Keyence Digital Mikroscope
- Keyence Confocal 3D Laser Scanning Microscope
- Image data base Imagic
Scanning Electron Microscope Zeiss Ultra 55
- equipped with EDAX EBSD and EDX system
Dual Dilatometer L75VD1600/500 LT (Linseis)
- Temperature range : 150 to 1600 °C
- Max. heating range 0,1 to 50 K/min
- Max. cooling range 0,1 to 50 K/min
- Resolution : 0,1 nm
- T Accuracy / Precision / Resolution: 1K/0.1K/0.001K
- Sample length : 50 mm
- Sample diameter: 20 mm
- Max. length variation: 5 mm or more if optical
- Atmosphere: inert gas, air, vacuum
Multi-atmosphere debinding and sintering furnace Xerion Fusion Factory
- Furnace for debinding and sintering of ceramic and metallic components
- Maximum temperature 1750°C
- Chamber volume 150 mm3
- Cold trap and catalytic exhaust gas post-combustion for thermal debinding
- Usable process atmospheres: air, argon, forming gas, vacuum
- Freely programmable heating, holding and cooling segments
Thermography camera Infratec ImageHR 8300 hp
- equipped with own software for lock-in evaluation with motion compensation
Chemical Analysis
ONH-Inert gas fusion method (Elementar)
- Detection of oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen
- From 0 to 20 mg absolute or 0 - 100% oxygen,
- From 0 to 30 mg absolute or 0 - 100% nitrogen
- From 0 to 2 mg absolute (TCD) or 0 - 100% hydrogen
- Inert gas fusion method up to 3000 °C in Helium oder Argon
- Sample mass up to 1 g
CS-Combustion (Elementar)
- Detection of carbon and sulfur
- From 1 ppm up to 100% or up to 60 mg carbon
- From 1 ppm up to 100%, or 5 mg sulfur
- High-temperature combustion at over 2000°C in oxygen atmosphere
- Sample mass up to 1 g
Hardness testing
- Hardness tester Wolpert Diatestor 2Rc for Vickers, Brinell, and Rockwell
- Microhardness tester FischerScope HM2000 equipped with xy-table
Microhardness tester QNESS 60 A+ EVO
- Testing according to: Vickers, Knoop
- Motorised XY cross table
- Fully automatic hardness testing incl. mappings
- Loading range: 0,25g – 62,5 kg
- Sample overview camera and sample holder for 4 samples
- Colour corrected HQ-lenses
- Köhler lighting
Analysis of metallic powders
Laser diffraction and optical measurement for measuring particle size distribution.
Revolution Powder Analyser for determining the flowability of powders.
