Experimental Infrastructure
The PIs of the SFB/Transregio 103 have access to a well equipped research infrastructure:
- Miniature creep test rigs (RUB, FAU)
- High temperature constant strain rate machines (RUB)
- Ultrasonic resonsonance spectroscopy for measuring elastic constants (RUB)
- High resolution and orientation imaging scanning electron microscopy (RUB, FAU)
- Diffraction contrast transmission electron microscopy of dislocations (RUB, MPIE, FAU)
- Isothermal and anisothermal fatigue testing (DLR)
- 3D atom probe (MPIE)
- Nano metrology (FAU, RUB)
- High resolution (cs-corrected) transmission electron microscopy (FAU)
- Casting facilities with research focus on fast cooling (FAU)
- Selective electron beam melting (FAU)
- Hot isostatic pressing (RUB)
- Magneton sputtering for combinatorial materials engineering (RUB)
- Coating technology (FZ-Jülich)
- Scale bridging materials modeling (RUB and FAU)