Primary shaping
- Cold-chamber die casting machine Frech DAK 450-54
with impeller and dosing robot; 4500 kN mold clamping force - Investment casting unit Systec FCBC
Casting weight max. 10 kg Ni-base alloy - Investment casting unit VIC Unit 7
Casting weight max. 0,6 kg Ni-base alloy - Vacuum arc furnace Bühler Arc Melter AM/05
Melting in laboratory scale (max. 150 g) - Induction furnace EFD HFP12
Melting in laboratory scale - Horizontal attritor Fa. Zoz
Mechanical alloying with grinding volume 8 l - Exzenter swing mill Fa. Siebtechnik
Mechanical alloying with grinding volume 19 l
Additive Manufacturing
- Electron beam melting plant Arcam A2
Additive manufacturing out of the powder bed (Location ZMP) - Electron beam melting plant Arcam Q10
Dito, but smaller beam diameter (Location ZMP) - Electron beam melting plant ATHENE
Dito, but much better performance data - Laser deposition unit InssTek
Additive Manufacturing in the powder stream
Heat treatment
- High vacuum furnace MUT
up to 1200 °C under protective gas and high vacuum - High vacuum furnace Gero LHTM 250/300
up to 1500 °C under protective gas and high vacuum (Location ZMP) - several batch-type furnaces
up to 1500 °C
Coating technology
- Microwave-plasma CVD diamond coating plant ASTeX AX 6350
Total power 5 kW, coating area 20 cm2 - Hot filament CVD diamond coating plant CemeCon CC800DIA/9
Total power 120 kW, coating area ca. 5000 cm2 (Location ZMP) - Hot filament CVD diamond coating plant CemeCon WTMCC800DIA-8 Katharina
Total power 60 kW, coating area ca. 2000 cm2, Boron doping possible - Hot filament CVD diamond coating plant CemeCon WTMCC800DIA-8 Eleonore
Total power 60 kW, coating area ca. 2000 cm2 - Hot filament CVD diamond coating plant WTM XXL Lucie
Total power 100 kW, coating area ca. 10000 cm2 - Hot filament CVD diamond coating plant WTM CVI
Total power 20 kW, coating area ca. 7002 - Structuring laser Rofin RSM-100D
Structuring surface ca. 200 cm2 - Structuring laser Rofin 20E LP
Structuring surface ca. 1000 cm2
Mechanical Testing
- Indentation Plastometer Plastometrex Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry (PIP) inclusive Hot-PIP
Determination of mechanical properties equivalent to tensile test at RT…800 °C - Universal testing machine Hegewald & Peschke retrofit 100
Tensile tests up to 100 kN at RT…1100 °C, pressure tests up to 50 kN at RT - Universal testing machine Instron Wolpert
Tensile tests up to 2 kN at RT, pressure tests up to 1 kN at RT - Resonance pulser Roell Amsler Vibro Win
Fatigue tests up to 50kN at RT…800 °C - several creep testing machines ATS 2330-CC
Creep tests up to 50 kN and 1100 °C - Impact testing machine Wolpert W-Testor PW30/15K
Measurement of notch impact energy up to 30 kp - Tribology test facility Wazau TRM 1000
Disc-disc- und bolt-disc-setups at RT…150 °C - several hardness tester Wolpert Dia-Testor
Vickers und Brinell hardness 1…250 kp - Micro hardness tester Leco M-400-G
Vickers hardness 0,01…1 kp - Resonance frequency analysis system IMCE RFDA Professional
Measurement of Young’s modulus and damping at RT
Physical, chemical and optical analysis
- DSC/TGA Netzsch STA409
Differencial thermal analysis und thermogravimetry RT…1550 °C - Dilatometer Netzsch DIL 402 C
Measurement of the thermal expansion RT…2000 °C (Location ZMP) - Laserflash device Linseis – LFA 1000
Measurement of thermal diffusity and conductivity RT…1200 °C (Location ZMP) - Confocal Raman Microscope WITec alpha300R – with probe-head alphaCART
Characterisation of crystallinity, doping level and chemical composition of covalent compounds - X-ray ct scanner Scanco Medical µCT-40
Resolution max. 10 µm - X-ray ct scanner Fraunhofer ERZT
Resolution max. 10 µm (Location ZMP) - Spark emission spectrometer Ametek Spectromaxx
Chem. analysis of Fe-, Al-, Mg-, Ni- und Ti-alloys (Location ZMP) - Microprobe Jeol JXA 8100
Wave length dispersive chemical analysis with high local resolution - Ion mill Leica EM TIC 3X
Sample preparation for the microprobe - Scanning electron microscope FEI Quanta 450
with EDX (energy dispersive chemical analysis) - Scanning electron microscope FEI Helios NanoLab 600i FIB
High resolution SEM with EDX, FIB and EBSD (Location ZMP) - Confocal laser microscope Olympus Lext OLS 4000
Contact-free surface characterisation (Location ZMP) - several light microscopes Leica DM6000M, Leica M205C, Zeiss Axiophot and Zeiss Axio Imager
Metallocraphic microscopy (bright- and dark-field, polarisation, Nomarski contrast) with quantitative microstructure analysis (Location WTM and ZMP)
Sample preparation
- fully equipped metallography
- fully equipped metallography
Numerical simulation
- Additive manufacturing (Software: in-house-developments)
- Foam formation (Software: in-house-developments)
- Thermodynamics and cinetics (Software: Thermo-Calc, DICTRA and in-house-developments)
- Mold filling (Software: Flow-3D cast)