Tribometer

Wazau TRM 500

Equipment

Operated with or without lubrication, with solid or fluid lubricants in boundary or mixed friction conditions

Both materials and lubricants can be tested

The tribological pair may have pin on disc or sphere on disc configurations

Temperature range: room temperature to 850ºC

Able to perform tests according to a wide range of European and American standards

Applications

Used for friction and wear measurements under continuous or alternating sliding motion

Microtribometer

Phoenix TE 66

Equipment

Precise control of the velocity (rpm)

Various weights available

Applications

Used to determine the abrasive and sliding wear coefficients of very small samples of coatings and materials in a ball on plate contact configuration

Used as a crater-generating tool for coating thickness determination

Can perform tests according to BS EN 1071-6: 2007 standard

Depth-Sensing Ultramicroindentation Tester

Shimadzu DUH-211S

Equipment

Load range: 0.1 to 1961 mN.

Applications

Allows for dynamic indentation measurements, testing in localized regions and determination of elastic modulus and hardness of a wide range of materials

Inverted Metallographic Microscope

Olympus PMG3

Equipment

Multi-purpose metallographic microscope

Equipped for bright field, polarized light and Nomarski interference contrast observation

Applications

Used for digital image acquisition and analysis