Equipment
Mechanical testing
- Servo-hydraulic testing machine
- Spindle testing machine for bending tests
- Various 3-point and 4-point bending fixtures
- 4-ball support fixture
- Stereomicroscope for in-situ observation during experiments
- Test rigs for static bending tests
- Edge testing device
- Hardness testing device
- Creep furnaces
- Microstrain measurement systems
- Small-load universal testing machine
- Carbolite temperature chamber
Material characterisation
- High-temperature dilatometer up to 2400°C
- Density determination equipment
- Thermal shock furnace
- Laboratory for measuring electrical properties of ceramics
- Characteristic curve measurement systems
- Thermal camera
- Scanning electron microscope (JEOL JCM-6000plus)
Ceramic Processing
- Diamond cutting and sectioning devices
- Vacuum embedding systems
- Automatic grinding and polishing preparation systems
- Plasma etching system, chemical and thermal etching
- Sputtering systems
- Reflected light microscope
- Stereomicroscope
- Video and photo documentation system
- Image analysis system
©MUL/ISFK Reflected light microscope
©MUL/ISFK Stereo microscope
©MUL/ISFK thermal etching
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- Hochtemperaturöfen (Hochtemperaturofen bis 1800°C; Kammerofen bis 1300°C)
- Uniaxiale Hydraulikpresse
- Planetenkugelmühle
- Siebanalyse
- Misch- und Dispergiergeräte
- 3D-Drucker (Lithoz CeraFab7500)
- Tapecaster CAM-L
- Isostatpresse ILS-46
- Cold Sintering
- Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)
