Equipment

• Instron I II III
• Instron VHS I II
• Hardness measurement

• Drop weights
• Multiaxial test bench
• Split Hopkinson pressure bar
• Battery test bench
• Permeability test bench

• Microstructure analysis
• Mikroscopy
• Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
• Tomography

• High-temperature furnaces of up to 1100 degrees centigrade
• Cold-gas facilities/temperature control
• Climatic chambers for sample conditioning

Commercial finite-element codes

• SIMULIA Abaqus
• LSTC LS-DYNA
• ESI PAM-CRASH
• COMSOL Multiphysics
• ANSYS

In-house simulation software

• SOPHIA
• APOLLO

Optimization

• LS-OPT

Data analysis and evaluation

• OriginLab Origin
• Wolfram Mathematica
• GOM ARAMIS
• MathWorks MATLAB

• Acceleration facility HyperG 220
• Variable impact load configuration (frontal-, rear-, side impact, pole tests, offset crash)
• Drive: servohydraulic catapult – acceleration profiles of up to 70 g
• Length: 43 meters
• Maximum speed: 22 meters per second
• Maximum payload: 3000 kilograms

 

Equipment: 

• 3D force-measurement wall
• Impact force measurement
• High-speed 3D measurements

• Length: 16 meters
• Maximum speed: 22 meters per second
• Maximum payload: 800 kilograms

 

Equipment:

• Measuring cell for composites
• Pressure measurement technique for closed volumes
• Thermography
• 3D force measurement

• High-speed cameras
• Force, displacement, acceleration and pressure sensors
• VISAR (velocity interferometer)
• Pyrometer/thermal camera
• 3D hand-held scanner 
• Optical grayscale value analysis for surfaces/marker tracking
• Photogrammmetry