Facilities
- Screw driven testing machine ZWICK Z50 Load up to ± 50 kN, test temperatures from -196 to +1200 °C. Tensile, compressive and 3 or 4 -point bend tests.
- Screw driven testing machine ZWICK 1382 Load up to ± 200 kN, test temperatures from -196 to +200 °C. Suitable for 3-point, 4-point bending, tension and compression (data acquisition and assessment using PC).
- Hydraulic testing machine ZWICK rel 1871 Load cell up to ± 100 kN, piston speed up to 6 m/s, testing at -150 °C to room temperatures. Fixtures for tensile, compact tension and three point bend specimens (data acquisition and assessment using PC).
- Universal test system INSTRON 8862 with electromechanical actuator Load cell up to ±100 kN. Fixtures for tensile and compression tests, compact tension and three or four point bend test.
- Screw driven testing machine ZWICK Z2.5 equipped with micro hardness head ZHU0.2 with optics Load cell of testing machine up to 2.5 kN. Micro hardness head equiped with instrumented Vicker, Knoop and universal microhardnes test with load up to 200 N and position resolution 20 nm.
- Micro-testing machine MTS Tytron 250 (out of service) Load cell up to ± 250 N, loading speed up to 0.5 m/s. Fixtures for tensile and three or four point bend test.
- Instrumented impact tester PSWO 3 (300 J) Load and deflection measurement using digital oscilloscope and/or PC. Charpy and pre-cracked Charpy test with posibility of various release angle.
- Instrumented impact tester Amsler RKP (300 J) Load measurement, angle measurement system, Charpy and pre-cracked Charpy test with posibility of various release angle, dynamic tensile test adaptor.
- Instrumented impact tester Zwick/Roell B5113.303 (50 J) Load measurement, different instrumented and non-instrumented pendulums from 0.5J up to 50J, dynamic tensile test adaptor.
- Drop weight tester according to ASTM standards.
- ESPI System Q-300 Dantec Dynamics is an Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) for high sensitive displacement and strain analysis
- 12X zoom system Navitar is high magnification long-distance microscope where Q4 software (prof. Hild) for digital image correlation is used
- Workstation for data acquisition at static (16 chanels up to 1.2MHz) and dynamic testing (2 chanels per 5MHz and 4 chanels per 20MHz). Measurement applications developed under LabView (ISA, AT MIO 16A, Gage Scope).
- Potential drop crack length measurement system DC based standard measurement system used mainly for three point bend specimen.
- Potential drop absolute crack length measurement system Techlab Semi AC/DC based advanced measurement system used for SENB and CT absolute crack lenght monitoring.
- Acoustic emission kit Dakel with PC measuring and analysing software.
- Image analysis system Tescan with Stereomicroscope Olympus Z61 for documentation and digital measurements in fracture surfaces, specimen dimensions.
- Two-processor PC workstation (2xXeon 64, RAM 6GB, Suse Linux 9.3, ABAQUS packages for FEM calculations).
- Two-processor workstation Octane (Silicon Graphics, IRIX).
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