Laboratories and equipment

Surface measurement laboratory

Zeiss 3D coordinate measurement machine
Tactile surface measurement devices for roughness and topography measurements
White light interferometer
Confocal microscope
Different light and digital microscopes and repro work stations
Different analytic and microbalances
Special measurement equipment for valve spring load, piston ring stress, wall thicknesses, chain lengths, etc.

Equipment for sample preparation (cutting, embedding, grinding and polishing)
Equipment for etching, analysing and storing metallographic sections (wear, macroscope and microscope dessicators)
Hardness measurement devices

Equipment for determining oil viscosities
Equipment for fingerprint determination of oils and their soot content, etc. (IR spectrometer and ꭚ absorption)
Equipment for wear index determination (ranking fresh and used oils)
Soot generator

Atomic force microscope (AFM)
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX) and large sample chamber
Micro etching equipment
Micro tribometer
In cooperation with high-performing partners at universities and other research institutions, we can supplement measurements and analyses of mechanical processes with surface physical processes like AES, GDOES, OES, SIMS, SNMS, TOF-SIMS, XPS, CT, FIB, TEM, TEM/EDX, HR-TEM, ESEM,/EDX, XRD, porosimetry, TGA, DSC, micro hardness. This provides us with further information on elementary composition and surface chemistry.