Technical equipment

Laboratory for material mechanics
 

•      Universal testing machines with environmental chamber and high-temperature furnace
•      Hydraulic pulse testers with high-temperature vacuum chamber (Tmax 1.600 °C)
•      Test field for short-term and long-term tests (tension, compression, bending, shear) under temperature and media conditions
•      Tribological test room (CNC controlled)
•      Universal hardness tester Fischerscope (automated)
•      3-furnace dilatometer (temperature range -250 °C - 1750 °C)
•      Microscopy lab with 2 light microscopes, stereomicroscope, component zoom system
•      Resonance and hysteresis testers
•      Degradation equipment
•      Biaxial extensometer and stretch-twist extensometer

Test centre for prototypes

•      Clamping grid for superimposed loads (cars, utility vehicles, large components)
•      Test beds for tanks and pipes
•      Test beds for hoses
•      Pneumatic multiaxial test bench for node structures
•      Thermo-baro chamber (volume 1,5 m³)
•      Climate cell (volume 30 m³) for static and dynamic tests
•      Special test rigs and testers for complex loads
•      Multi-point testing equipment
•      4-channel acoustic emission analysis
•      Bending vibration equipment
•      3D laser equipment (ESPI, greyscale correlation technique)
•      Photoelastic testing equipment (surface coating, transmitted light)
•      High-speed camera
•      Ultrasonic testing system with immersing bath, hydraulic film and air coupling
•      Lock-in thermal imaging equipment
•      Acoustics test room for composite structures

High-speed testing complex

•      High-speed tension tester (Fmax ±160 kN, vmax 20 m/s)
•      Impact and crash test bench (vmax 42 m/s)
•      Drop tower (h 27 m, impact area 2500 mm × 2500 mm)
•      Servohydraulic multiaxial testing machine (Fmax ±1.000 kN, Mt,max 4000 Nm, fmax 1000 Hz)
•      Instrumented pendulum impact tester
•      3 High-speed rotor test rigs (nmax 250.000 1/min, Ømax 1 m)

Technology centre

•      3 high-performance autoclaves (max. charging chamber Ø1500 mm × 3500 mm, Tmax 1200 °C, pmax 100 bar)
•      5-axis filament winding machine
•      High-speed radial braiding machine (Ø 4 m)
•      RTM equipment
•      All-round injection moulding machine (MIM, CIM)
•      Multifunction quick-stroke press (Fmax 3000 t, rapid traverse speed 800 mm/s, Press table 3.2 m × 2.4 m) with LFT extruder
•      160 t press (heatable)
•      Polymer processing centre

CAE laboratory

•      PC pool
•      HP workstation pool (35 seats)
•      File server and compute server

ProZeD

The ILK is a member of "Prozesstechnisches Zentrum Dresden ProZeD" (Dresden Centre of Process Technology).
(Spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Knut Großmann, vice-spokesman: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Werner Hufenbach)