Mechanical testing

• Tension tests (up to 0.5 m/s)
• Compression tests (up to 6 m/s)
• Three-point bending tests (up to 6 m/s)

High temperature
1400 °C


Ambient temperature
20 °C


Low temperature
-196 °C

Quasi-static Dynamic

Fatigue tests

• Low-cycle fatigue – Manson-Coffin curves
• High-cycle fatigue – S-N curves

Fracture toughness tests

• K_Ic
• J-R curve
• Master curve
• Measurement of fatigue crack propagation rate
• Determining the threshold stress intensity factor for fatigue crack propagation

Tests of components

Small punch test

Non-standard tests according to customer requirements

Measurement of stress-strain characteristics – input data used predominantly for computer simulations

• Measurement of work hardening during plastic deformation

• Flow stress measurement from -150 °C up to 1300 °C

Deformation behaviour of steels in response to deformation temperature and strain