Tribology, Material science & damage analysis
Laboratories & equipment
Surface analyses laboratory
- ZEISS 3D coordinate measuring machine
- Surface measuring instruments for roughness measurements and topography measurements
- White-light interferometers
- Various light microscopes
- Special measuring instruments for valve spring load, piston ring stress, etc.
Metallographic laboratory
- Equipment for sample preparation
- Equipment for beveling, etching and evaluation of metallographic specimen
Oil laboratory
- Equipment for the analysis of oil viscosities
- Equipment for the analysis of soot concentration in oils (IR-absorption and y-absorption)
Tribological laboratory
- Atomic force microscope
- Scanning electron microscope
- Micro-scratch devices
- Tribometers