Materials engineering research

Power Engineering

What can we offer you in this field?

  • Determination of the creep characteristics of steel using creep tests and stress rupture tests
  • small punch creep testing (SPCT)
  • internal pressure creep rupture testing
  • evaluation of degradation of material properties and microstructure due to service
  • residual lifetime assessment of power equipment

Technical equipment of the workplace

  • vertical lever type creep machines with constant load up to 30 kN
  • horizontal multiple spring type creep machines with constant load up to 15 kN
  • horizontal furnace for internal pressure creep rupture tests
  • laboratory annealing furnaces for long-term annealing

Metallography and structural analysis

What can we offer you in this field?

  • evaluation of macrostructure, sulphur prints (Bauman method)
  • analysis of microstructure of materials (optical and electron microscopy)
  • determination of content of metallic inclusions
  • determination of ferritic and austenitic grain size
  • detection of defects in welded joints
  • assessment of creep cavitation damage
  • qualitative and quantitative fractographic analysis
  • EDX microanalysis of the chemical composition of non-metallic inclusions, precipitates, etc., line analysis and mapping
  • dilatometric determination of thermal expansion coefficients
  • dilatometric determination of phase transformation points, TTT and CCT diagrams
  • material expertise, failure analysis of structural materials
  • optimization of material selection and heat treatment
  • analysis of the influence of metallurgical, technological and operational factors on the structure and properties of the equipment in operation

Technical equipment of the workplace

  • Olympus SZX 10 stereomicroscope
  • Olympus PMG 3 and GX51 optical microscopes
  • LECO AMH 43 automatic hardness testing machine
  • Keyence VHX 5000 optical-digital microscope
  • JEOL JSM 5510 scanning electron microscope
  • EDX microanalyzer X-max20, INCAEnergy software
  • DIL 805L quenching dilatometer
  • Struers metallography equipment for sample preparation