Equipment

Test laboratories observing standard climatic conditions are equipped with

• Universal testing machines
• Servo-hydraulic testing facilities
• Drop-tower test benches
• Multiaxial test bench
• Split Hopkinson bar (for tension and pressure)
• Climatic chambers for expanded measuring ranges
• Light-gas accelerators
• Crash Center of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with its research crash-test facility and component crash-test facility for structures and components up to a height of four meters  
• Lighting-strike test bench for plates and small components 

• High-speed video systems
• Acceleration sensors
• VISAR (velocity interferometer)
• Flash X-ray
• High-speed infrared cameras

• Microtomography (µCT): MacroScience CT-500 and CT-350
• Ultrasonics (up to 16 mm CFRP)
• Thermography
• Optical microscopy
• Acoustic microscopy
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Laser scanning microscopy (LSM)
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM)

• Microsection
• Mechanical (DMS/strain gauges) and optical deformation measurement (DIC)
• Mechanical and optical extensometers
• Force sensors
• Temperature measurement
• Current and voltage measurement