Equipment

Fiber™ (Desktop Metal)

• Printing Technologies: Micro Automated Fiber Placement (µAFP)
• Installation space: 310 x 240 x 270 mm³
• Nozzle temperature: max. 500 °C
• Print bed temperature: max. 150 °C
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INTAMSYS HT Enhanced

• Installation space: 260 mm x 260 mm x 260mm (W x D x H)
• Nozzle temperature: 450 °C
• Installation space temperature: max. 90 °C
• Print bed temperature: max. 160 °C

Creality3D CS-10-S5

• Installation space: 500 mm x 500 mm x 500 mm (W x D x H)
• Nozzle temperature: 240 °C

CooCheer A8

• adapted for filaments with ceramic filler
• Installation space: 220 mm x 270 mm x 240 mm (W x D x H)
• Nozzle temperature: 240 °C

Qidi Tech X-Pro

• Dual extruder
• Installation space: 230 mm x 150 mm x 150 mm (W x D x H)
• Nozzle temperature: 240 °C

Anycubic Kossel

• Delta printer for paste printing
• Installation space: diameter 230 mm, height 300 mm

CERAMBOT

• Delta printer for paste printing
• Installation space: diameter 170 mm, height 280 mm

Anycubic Photon

• SLA printer for unfilled and filled polymers
• Installation space: 115 mm x 65 mm x 155 mm (W x D x H)

Anycubic Wash & Cure

• SLA Post-Treatment

Polymaker Polysher

• FDM Post-Treatment for PVB Filaments

• Semi-automatic spraying equipment
• Dipping equipment
• Spray booth with spray lance for interior coating

• Profilometer: Coating thickness measurement and roughness
• Scratch hardness tester: Lineartester (Erichsen)
• Contact angle measurement (DSA100, Krüss)

• Laboratory spinning plant
• Pilot spinning plant

• Continuous, wet-chemical fiber coating plant

• Universal testing machine Inspekt table blue (Hegewald & Peschke Meß- und Prüftechnik GmbH)

  • load cells: 20 N - 5 kN
    
  • Room temperature
    
  • Single fiber tensile test
    
  • Compression test
    
  • 3- and 4-point bending
    
  • Double ring bending test
    
  • Tensile test of ceramic foils

• Z050TEW high-temperature universal testing machine (ZwickRoell Testing Systems GmbH)
  
  • load cells: 20 N - 50 kN
    
  • Room temperature - 1550 °C (two-zone short furnace up to 1400 °C; three-zone tube furnace up to 1550 °C; air or purge gas)
    
  • Video extensometer at room temperature
    
  • Laser extensometer for longitudinal and transverse strain up to 1550 °C (non-contact, mark-free)
    
  • Single fiber tensile test (RT - 1400 °C)
    
  • 3- and 4-point bending (RT - 1550 °C)
    
  • Tensile test (RT - 1400 °C)
    
  • Compression test (RT - 1550 °C)
    
  • Double ring bending test (RT - 850 °C)

• Light microscopes
• Scanning electron microscope incl. EDX and EBSD (Zeiss Sigma 300 VP)
• Raman microscope (Bruker Senerra II)

• X-ray diffractometer (Bruker D8 Advance with high temperature chamber up to 1200 °C)
• FT-IR instrument (Bruker Vector 22)

• Cerographic preparation equipment (Struers, hand-held and semi-automatic)

• Reflection probe
• Integrating sphere
• div. light sources
• Spectrometer (UV/VIS/NIR, Echelle)

• sintering furnaces (Ceram Aix, Nabertherm, oxidizing atmosphere, Tmax=1750 °C)
• various chamber furnaces
• High temperature furnaces (up to 1750 °C)
• calcining furnaces (Fa. Nabertherm, Tmax = 1350 °C, oxidizing atmosphere)

• Graphitizing furnace (FCT, diameter: 250 mm, height: 300 mm, max. 2400 °C)
• Heraeus tube furnace (nominal temperature: 1100 °C, approx. 9 kW, 380 V, 24 A, 50/60 Hz, heated length: 1 m, Al2O3 ceramic tube (outer diameter: 90 mm, inner diameter approx. 75 mm), operation under protective gas (nitrogen, argon), heating rate: 5 K/min
• Pyrolysis furnace (FCT, diameter: 400 mm, height: 600 mm, 1000 °C)
• Siliconizing furnace (FCT, diameter: 400 mm, height: 500 mm)
• Protective gas tube furnaces for controlled atmosphere including control system

• Development laboratory for heteroelement inorganic precursors including high vacuum line

• Glove boxes (Braun company)

• Particle sizer (Cilas HR 850; 0.1- 600 µm)
• Particle sizer (Anton Paar PSA 1190; 0.04 - 2500 µm in suspension; 0.1 - 2500 µm dry)

• Freeze drying plant (ALPHA 1-4 LSC, Martin Christ company)
• Planetary and agitator ball mill
• Vibrating cup mill (Pulverisette 9, Fritsch company)
• Ultrasonic disintegrator
• Fluidized bed reactor (Minibatch, Heinen company)

• Mobility Meter (Zeta potential; Field ESA, Partikel-Analytik Messgeräte GmbH)
• Rheometer (Anton Paar MCR 702 MultiDrive with furnace up to 600 °C)

• Uniaxial workshop press (ENERPAC, F = 500 kN)

Dilatometer (Netzsch, 402E/7, max. 1500 °C)

• TG and DSC/DTA (Netzsch STA 449 F5 Jupiter)
• DTA/DSC with FT-IR, MS and GC (Netzsch STA 449 F3 Jupiter) including automatic sample changer

• Pin-Disc (Waza): Friction coefficient determination, 100 Hz, 1000 N contact pressure

• In-house design in cooperation with the Chair of Design and CAD
• Up to 1200 kW, area-specific friction power up to 3200 W/mm²
• Speed max = 2500 rpm^-1
• Braking force: pneumatic up to 50 kN
• Brake pressures: depending on specimen size (e.g. for 30 x 30 mm² up to 60 MPa)
• Flywheel mass: 800 kg (120 kgm²) and 200 kg (15 kgm²) available
• Tests with constant sliding speed
• Stop-braking tests, i.e. tests with decreasing speed
• Pad size: 10 x 20 x 10 mm³ to 30 x 30 x 10 mm³ (L x W x D, other sizes on request)
• Brake discs: 250 - 1000 mm diameter (other diameters on request)

• Fiber composite laboratory with laboratory hot press (heating plate size: 150 x 150 mm², 400 °C)

• 4-axis laboratory winding line (XWinder 4X-23)

• possible cutting length: 6 mm, 12 mm, 24 mm, 48 mm, 96 mm