What can we offer you in this field?

• complex chemical analyses of metallic materials, slags, ceramic materials and leachates
• development of analytical methods
• chemical analysis of metallurgical wastes
• special analyses
• expert activities
• development of metallurgical waste processing technologies
• testing of metallic materials in acidic environments containing H₂S, CO₂

Technical equipment of the workplace

• Perkin Elmer Optima 8000 (OES ICP spectrometry)
• ARL, ADVANT’X (X-ray spectrometry)
• Perkin Elmer PinAA cle 900H (AAS)
• LECO CS 230 (Automatic analyzer C, S)
• Hydrogen sulfide laboratory for HIC and SSC tests

What can we offer you in this field?

• determination of mechanical and fracture properties by SPT tests, sampling of test material (presentation) and subsequent evaluation of the residual lifetime of component in operation
• evaluation of the effect of high temperature and pressure aqueous environments on the degradation processes of structural materials
• testing of basic mechanical properties
• Charpy impact test at temperature between -196 and 300 °C
• testing of fatigue and fracture properties, determination of Manson Coffin and Woehler curves, determination of Paris-Erdogan relationship to fatigue crack growth rate, measurement of thresholds values of stress intensity factor
• stress corrosion cracking tests in a high temperature and pressure aqueous environment
• stress corrosion cracking tests in gaseous environments (high pressure hydrogen, mixed gases with hydrogen)
• simulation heat treatment
• evaluation of mechanical properties with miniaturised test specimens
• vibration testing of automotive components
• design of test fixtures and implementation of their production
• advice and consultancy in the field of materials engineering

Technical equipment of the workplace

• SSamTM-2 sampling device (Rolls-Royce)
• static autoclave for the assessment of stress corrosion cracking in a high temperature and pressure aqueous environment
• Dynamic autoclave for measuring crack growth kinetics and fatigue properties in a high temperature and pressure aqueous environment
• static autoclave for evaluating the effect of high pressure hydrogen up to pressure 30 MPa
• dynamic autoclave for the evaluation of the degradation effect of high pressure hydrogen on the fracture and fatigue characteristics of structural materials
• servo-hydraulic test equipment with a range of up to 500 kN
• Charpy pendulum hammer 450 J – instrumented
• Hardness testing machines HBG, HV, HRC, instrumented Zwick hardness testing machine
• Rotating bar bending fatigue testing equipment