Destructive testing

• Materials testing for the regulated (e.g. pressure equipment) and unregulated fields
• Specimen manufacture and testing in two to four working days
• Pick-up service for specimens
• Heat treatment in a laboratory furnace
• Cooperation with acceptance companies
• Damage investigation
• Advice about testing technology and materials engineering
• Manufacture of special-purpose testing jigs

Tensile tests

2 Universal testing machines with 50 kN and 400 k

• Base material samples, reinforced steel samples
• Z quality determination
• Welding seams: cross and lenghtwise samples
• Overlap joints and double T-joints
• Tearing test
• component tests
• Adhesion tests according to DIN EN 582
• Shear strenght testing according to DIN EN 15340 and DIN 27201-10
  
  

Hardness test

Stationary hardness test according to Brinell, Vickers and Rockwell

Mobile hardness testing:

• UCI procedure
• Leeb procedure
• Base material samples

Bending tests

• Welding joits: cross bending tests, side beding tests, lengthwise bending tests
  
  

Weld bead bending tests/fracture tests

• Weld bead bending tests of plates, profile and round steels
• fracture test of butt welds / cross welds / fillet welds
  
  

Notch impact tests

• Pendulum impact tester 450J
• Base material samples
• Welding bonds
  
  

Special tests

• Dynamic fatigue testing
• Ring flattening test and ring tensile testing
• Rourghness measurements (on thermal sprayed surfaces)
  
  

Procedure/work and welder qualification tests

• Procedure qualification tests according to DIN EN ISO 15614, AD 2000 HP2/1 and DIN EN 1090
• Welder qualification tests according to DIN EN ISO 9606
• Operator qualification tests according to DIN EN 1418 and DIN EN ISO 14732
• Testing and qualification of cutting processes according to DIN EN 1090‑2/‑3
• Suitability test on reinforcing steel according to DIN EN ISO 17660

Stationary hardness test according to Brinell, Vickers and Rockwell

Mobile hardness testing:

• UCI procedure from 5 mm plate thickness on
• TIV procedure on all materials from 100 HV on and all plate thicknesses

• Weld bead bending tests of plates, profile and round steels
• fracture test of butt welds / cross welds / fillet welds

• fracture mechanics tests: C(T) and SE(B) samples
• Dynamic fatigue testing
• Ring flattening test and ring tensile testing