Service

The Institute for Materials Science and Engineering focuses on the material behavior of multiscale materials. Since the appointment of Prof. Dr. Wolfram in October 2023, this now also includes the material behavior of biological tissues and organs, with a focus on mineralized material architectures. These materials include mineral-reinforced biopolymers, bioceramics, bioglasses, and their composites. To investigate the properties of such materials, we employ a combination of innovative experiments, numerical methods, and mathematical models, ranging from the molecular to the macroscopic scale.

An overview of the services we currently offer can be found below. However, upon request, we can also provide individual assistance with problems and damage cases in the materials engineering field. Additionally, custom measurements on the machines and systems depicted can be conducted at our facility by arrangement.

Materials testing

  • Quasi-static: tensile and compression tests (1 mN – 1000 kN), bending tests
  • Technological testing methods
  • Stress and fatigue corrosion cracking testing
  • Salt spray testing
  • Small-load and macrohardness testing
  • Roughness measurement
  • Nanoindentation
  • Micropillar testing

Materialography

  • Spectral analysis
  • High-performance light microscopes
  • Digital 3D microscope
  • Image analysis/image processing
  • Semi-automatic microhardness testing
  • Materials testing
  • Correlative image analysis

Material forming

  • Horizontal extrusion press
  • Torsion press (multi-axial)
  • Cold and hot rolling
  • Profile rolling
  • Rotary swaging machines
  • Hydraulic presses

Electron microscopy

  • Scanning electron microscope with EDX
  • FIB/FE/SEM (via CZM) and laser ablation (surface structuring)

Heat treatment

  • Various chamber furnaces and tube furnaces (optionally with protective gas)
  • Rapid heating system
  • Salt bath furnace

Mechanical surface treatment

  • Shot peening systems with injector, pressure peening, gravity, and blast wheel principles
  • Blasting media preparation - deep rolling treatment with hydrostatic tools for smooth and notched geometries

Texture and residual stress analysis

  • X-ray and neutron diffraction
  • Incremental borehole analysis

Analytical technology

  • Dilatometric measurements - Thermal analyses
  • Dispersion analysis
  • Electrochemistry
  • Corrosion studies
  • Particle size distributions
  • Porosimetry
  • Damping properties - Relaxation properties
  • Determination of magnetic properties
  • Conductivity measurements
  • Thermogravimetric analyses (via CZM)
  • Confocal microscopy and Raman spectroscopy
  • Microfluidic devices

Computational Analyses

  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Dissipated Particle Dynamics
  • Finite Element Analyses