Equipment: Material and component characterization

Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM

Machinery and plants for static, dynamic and cyclic testing under tensile, compressive, thrust, bending and internal pressure loads

  • Servo-hydraulic and electro-mechanical testing machines for test forces of between 10 N and 8 MN with test chambers between 80 K and 2500 K
  • High-speed tension-testing machines up to 100 kN and withdrawal rates up to 20 m/s
  • Impact testing machines between 1 J and 750 J
  • Falling-weight machines up to 7000 J
  • Fatigue-strength testing facilities
  • Internal-pressure testing facilities and triaxial presses up to 7000 bar and 1000 K
  • Spans for component testing
  • Solar module test stand
  • Creep laboratory
  • Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)

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Facilities for testing under the influence of temperatures and media

  • Tube test rigs for long-term and internal-pressure tests up to 750 °C, with alternating-load facilities for
  • superimposing axial tension and pressure
  • Experimental rigs for thermo-mechanical fatigue up to 1800 °C
  • Experimental rigs for thermo-mechanical fatigue of films and metal sheets
  • Vacuum, climate and temperature test chambers
  • Inductive heating systems
  • Corrosion test stands for aqueous and gaseous media
  • Hydrogen determinator with an additional external furnace
  • Hydrogen analyzer with tempering chamber
  • Rotational rheometer
  • High-pressure capillary viscosimeter
  • Melt strength measuring system
  • Melt index meter

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Microscopic techniques for material characterization

  • Transmission electron microscope (TEM 200 kV) with X-ray analysis system (Nanospot EDX)
  • HR, LV and UHV scanning electron microscopes (SEM) with combined energy and wavelength dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX, WDX) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis
  • Analytical scanning electron microscope with EDX/EBSD
  • Environmental scanning electron
  • microscope (ESEM)
  • Light-optical microscopes
  • Atomic force microscopes (AFM)
  • Confocal microscope
  • Focused ion beam (FIB) system (single beam)
  • Focused ion beam systems with SEM (dual-beam FIB) and combined EBSD and EDX analytics
  • Focused ion beam system with environmental SEM and adapted cryogenics
  • 2-D X-ray inspection system
  • IR thermographic camera with lock-in system
  • UV/VIS spectrometer
  • Infrared spectrometer
  • Micro and macro hardness testers (fully automatic and manual)
  • Nano-indenter with tempering unit

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Techniques for structural, deformation and residual stress analysis

  • Quantitative image analysis systems
  • High-speed and IR cameras
  • ARAMIS system for optical, three-
  • dimensional strain measurement
  • Speckle interferometer for contactless deformation and vibration analysis
  • Dual-beam laser extensometer for contactless deformation measurement
  • X-ray diffraction systems for stress measurement, phase and texture analysis and particle-size determination with high-temperature facility up to 2300 K and thin-film analysis
  • facility
  • Mobile diffractometer
  • Micro-diffractometer (lateral resolution of 50 µm)
  • Hole drilling technique for depth-
  • resolved residual stress analysis
  • Hydrogen analyzer incl. age-hardening oven
  • Density and porosity measuring
  • facilities
  • Karl Fischer titrator (hygrometry)

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Test facilities for microsystems and micro-electronic components

  • Pull and shear tester for joints
  • In-situ deformation facilities for
  • scanning and transmission electron microscopes
  • Micro-optical force measuring station with manipulation facilities
  • Test rigs for strength and lifetime prediction
  • Microsystem analyzer (MSA) for contactless deformation and vibration analysis
  • Automatic electric measuring station for measurements in the pico amp range
  • Back side preparation
  • Wafer bond system with plasma activation

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Techniques for heat treatment, thermo-physical characterization and analysis of welded joints

  • Dynamic differential calorimetry (DSC, DTA)
  • Temperature and heat conductivity measurement (laser flash method)
  • Heat-treatment and welding simulation system (Gleeble 2000), (Gleeble 3150)
  • Jominy test rig
  • Dilatometer up to 2000 °C
  • Laser flash apparatus
  • Differential scanning calorimeter
  • Differential thermal analysis
  • Nano, micro and macro hardness
  • testers
  • Recording indentation tester up to 600 °C
  • Mobile hardness meter

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