Chair of Metals Science and Technology
University of Erlangen-Nuernberg
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert F. Singer / Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Carolin Koerner

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Equipment

Casting Technologies
FRECH- die casting unit DAK 450-54 (real time controlled, 4500 kN clamping force) with Aluminum- and Magnesium crucible melting furnace
Induction melting furnaces
Electron beam melting furnaces
Arc melting furnace
Investment casting plant with LMC-option
Low pressure infiltration plant
Spin casting plant with heatable tool (max. revolution 7400 Cpm)
Atomiser (Rotating Electrode Process)
High energy ball mills (horizontal attritor: 8 l grinding volume, Zoz-GmbH);(excenter swing mill, Fa. Siebtechnik, 19 l grinding volume)
Hot isostatic press with rapid cooling facility (ABB, 207 MPa, 2000°C)
Rapid Prototyping (ARCAM EBM-S12)
Metal Forming
Rotary swaging machine
2000 kN and 10 kN rolling mill
Coating Techniques
Microwave-Plasma CVD Diamond Coating Plant (ASTeX AX 6350, 5 kW) with heated stage
Hot Filament CVD Diamond coating plant (CemeCon CC800DIA)
Hot Filament CVI/CVD Diamond infiltration plant
Mechanical Testing
600kN, 100kN and 10 kN tensile and pressure testing machine
50kN resonance pulser
50kN hydro pulser
Rotary bending fatigue tester
Creep testing machine
Servo-hydraulic universal testing machine
Impact testing machine
Macro- and micro hardness tester
Tribological testers (Wazau TRM 1000)
Thermal Analysis
Thermo-gravimetric analysis TGA (25 °C to 1500 °C)
Differential thermal analysis DSC (25 °C to 1500 °C)
High- (20 °C to 1500 °C) and low (-160 °C to 500 °C) temperature dilatometer
Physical And Optical Analysis
µCT X-ray computer tomography (Scanco Medical µCT-40)
Resonance frequency- and damping analysis system (IMCE RFDA System 23)
Raman Spectrometer (Renishaw Ramanscope 2000)
Microprobe (JEOL JXA 8100)
Scanning electron microscope with EDX
ZEISS light-optical microscope with quantifying image analysis (Image C, OPTIMAS)

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last update 12/20/2011