R&D Equipment
Excerpt from our modern, extensive list of R&D equipment:
- Vacuum induction furnace (melts ranging from 2 to 300 kg)
- Hot rolling mill (300 - 1,000 t)
- Flexible cooling circuit behind the 1.000-t hot rolling frame
- Skin pass mill (550 t)
- Limit State Analyzer (LiSA) - bending machine for large pipes
- 1,000-t try-out forming press (Dieffenbacher)
- 16 kW YAG laser welding machine
- 5-wire submerged arc welding machine (SAW)
- HFI laboratory welding machine
- Thermo-mechanical forming simulator (Gleeble) for the determination of hot forming characteristic data
- Electrolytic galvanization simulator (10 – 176 A/dm2)
- Dilatometer (cooling up to 600 K/s)
- System for collapse testing of line pipes up to 11,000 m water depth
- Drop weight tear tester (BDWT)
- Internal pressure test on line pipes (static/dynamic)
- Hydraulic ring test up to 60 °C on large format line pipes
- Corrosion testing laboratory for sour gas tests (SSC) on line pipes
- Creep testing unit for highly heat-resistant materials with 220 individual testing stations
- Impulse test stand up to 6,000 bar (diesel injection lines, etc.)
- Multi-pass (sheet metal loads: tension, pressure, temperature up to 1,000 °C, cooling)
- Complete laboratory instrumentation for simulating automotive coatings
- Nano hardness testing unit
- Software for cross-scale simulation (microstructure continuum)
- High-resolution scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- Electron microprobe (EMP)
- Spark emission spectrometer
- FEM simulation program for mechanical and thermal problems (Abaqus and Marc®) as well as for massive forming processes (SIMUFACT)
- Telemetry system for wireless transmission of measurement signals, e.g. measurement of torques on shafts
- Measurement amplifier with up to 48 channels (Catman, QuantumX)
- Digital 3D measuring microscope (Keyence)
- Portable 3D hand-held scanner
- System for torsion tests