Steinbeis Transfer Center
Corrosion and Working Materials
| Reiherstr. 39 | |
| D-73434 Aalen | |
| Phone: | 07361-4604635 |
| Fax: | 07361-4604636 |
| E-Mail: | SU0822(at)stw.de |
- Management:
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Ladwein
Services
- Consulting
- Material selection
- Material application
- Material processing
- Corrosion protection strategies
- Damage assessment
- Investigations into material failure due to mechanical reasons, corrosion or both
- Suggestions for preventing (further) damage
- Expert reports
- Applied research
- Optimization and re-engineering of corrosion-resistant metal objects
- Optimization of the functionality of engineered surfaces
- Corrosion protection systems
- Lamination and coatings
- Corrosion testing
- Testing according to German and other standards
- Atmospheric corrosion
- Surface corrosion
- Hole and crevice corrosion
- Stress corrosion
- Corrosion assessment
- Investigation into the course of damage
- Simulation of corrosion processes
- Electrochemical experiments
- Optimization of materials and corrosion protection systems for specific applications
- Surface and material assessment (metallography, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis/EDX)
- Material testing
- Mechanical material testing
- Tribometric assessment
- Literature searches, expert reports
- Drafting of documentation on material properties and corrosions protection
- Seminars and speeches
Key Areas
- Materials and corrosion in harsh environments and application areas (chemical industry, oil and gas, environmental technology, de-salification etc.)
- Engineering of highly corrosion-resistant metals
- Non-corrosive steel
- Nickel alloys
- Refractory metals
- Application of corrosion-resistant materials in B2B and B2C
- Characterization of functional surfaces
- Corrosion protection systems based on lamination and coatings