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

| 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) |
last update 12/20/2011