Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Werkstoffe Korrosion und Korrosionsschutz GmbH

• Corrosion and corrosion testing
• Materials and material testing
• Tribology (friction, wear, and lubrication, wear protection layers)
• Lightweight construction materials and light metals
• Surface engineering (CVD/PVD coatings, anodizing, chemical and galvanic techniques, residual stress testing)
• Testing of coatings, development, and validation
• Optimization of materials and surface technology for different types of applications
• The aeronautical industry
• Medical technology
• The metalworking industry
• The automotive industry
• Case study database of “corrosion and surface engineering” (program for storing reports, damage protocols, results of testing)

• Tensile testing machine (including EN ISO standard 6892, DIN standard 50125):
  • Universal testing: Zwick T1464 with fine strain measurement
  • Universal testing: Zwick Z050 with fine strain measurement capable of settings between -60°C and +180°C, video analysis
• Cupping tests: Erichsen (including DIN EN ISO standard 20482)
• Notch impact bending test: PDE impact testing machine (Schenk), 300 J working capacit
• Hardness testing based on Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell
• Low-load hardness testing devices: Zwick, Zeiss
• Crack testing (electromagnetic crack inspection, dye penetrant method, ultrasonic testing
• Thermoanalysis (DSC): Mettler

• Light metals, steel and coatings/overlays, component (including ISO standard 9227, VDA621-415)
• Alternate immersion testing (incl. EN 3212, ASTM G44)
• Condensed water testing (DIN standard 50017)
• Corrosion on components subject to electronic loads (incl. patent DE102010026662)
• Electrochemical measurement (incl. DIN standards 50905, 50918, and 50919)
• Potentiostatic and potentiodynamic measurement
• Galvanic corrosion behavior (e.g. fiber composites, material combinations)
• Crevice corrosion research
• Filiform corrosion testing (incl. EXCO testing, EN 3665)
• Intercrystalline corrosion (incl. DIN EN ISO 3651)
• Media testing
• Stress corrosion cracking and tests involving stress corrosion cracking (incl. ISO standard 7539, DIN standard 50915, DIN standard EN 14101, DIN standard 50922, ASTM G47)
• Hydrogen-induced damage to high-strength materials (hydrogen brittle fracture, including DIN standard 50969)

• Various climatic chambers
  • -70°C to +180°C with regulated air moisture
  • RT up to 300°C
  • Temperature shock testing
  • Xenon UV irradiation with condensed water

• Mandrel bend testing
• Cross-cut testing
• Erichsen cupping
• Corrosion and media stress
• Coat thickness testing
• Scratch hardness (including ISO standard 1518)

• Falex testing
• Pin-disk wear testing (incl. ASTM G99) (slide abrasion)
• SRV testing under climatic and gas loads (fretting wear)
• Linear tribometer under climatic and gas loads (oscillating wear)

• Scanning electron microscopy and EDX
• GDOS/GDOES on the chemical composition of materials and coatings/overlays
• Light and laser microscopy: Zeiss, Leitz, and Olympus
• Metallography
• Zeiss spectro-photometer (reflectance measurement, 380 - 2500 nm)
• Reflectance characteristics of surfaces such as coatings
• Residual stress testing
• Surface topography
  

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