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Mechanical Testing Laboratory

Fields of activity

• Tests under static and impact loading
• Tests of welded joints
• Hardness tests on metals and plastic materials
• Brittle fracture resistance tests
• Crack growth rate measurement at cyclic (fatigue) loading
• Heat resistance, relaxation and structural stability tests

Equipment

• WPM, Schenck-Trebel, TIRA testing machines of load capacity from 2 N to 600 kN. - Germany
• MTS Electro-hydraulic testing machines of load capacities 500 kN and 2500 kN, for either static and/or cyclic loading - USA
• WPM, AMSLER 300 J and PSWO 300 J (instrumented) pendulum impact hammers for notch and dynamic fracture toughness tests - Germany
• Vickers Armstrong, SKODA, Insertion, WPM and WOLPERT hardness testers
• Creep laboratory with own test equipment for creep and relaxation tests at temperature up to 1100 °C and load upto 30 kN

References

• Mechanical and creep tests for SKODA POWER and SKODA JS
• Staircase fatigue tests of bolts for General Electric Transporting System
• Tests of welds according to EN 288-3 for Pentar-ZBA Horni Slavkov
• Evaluation of weldments for SKODA WELDING
• Fatigue tests for automotive industry - Renault
• Evaluation of mechanical properties of base materials and weldments of structural components for TUV Bayern SZA

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