We offer the following:

• Drawing up construction and technological designs for machines and tools in the field of welding technology
• Conducting experiments, testing, measuring, examinations and overall verification of forming technologies and tools
• Performing basic forming operations on machines in the laboratory of the heavy press shop
• Production of parts, verification and testing of tools
• Measuring mechanical and physical properties when remoulding of materials
• Measuring hardness and micro-hardness
• Upsetting tests with evaluation
• Testing the mechanical behaviour of materials at a high rate of deformation for compress and tensile tests
• Testing plates and coats using the Erichsen test
• Measuring the surface structure of metallic and non-metallic materials – also outside the laboratory
• Measuring the thickness of ultrathin sheets – foils –Interapid instrument
• Strength analyses of forming tools using FEM
• Professional training courses at the request of companies

Equipment:

• Laboratory of rapid deformations and modelling forming processes
  • experimental pneumatic devices – cannons – for performing the Taylor test -TAT and Hopkinson test-HT (HPBT)
  • Tektronix 210 and HP54624A digital memory oscilloscopes with PCi III control computers
  • amplifiers of dynamic pulses with tensometric and capacity sensors
  • MIDI RAYTEK contactless thermal probe with UNIT-8 thermometer
• Laboratory of hardness measuring - ZWICK 3212 hardness tester with CCD camera and  SwtestExpert software
• Laboratory of sheet forming and mechanical tests
  • ERICHSEN F-4 equipment – for testing the deep-drawing quality of metal sheets and bands with a HEIDENHAIN scanning unit with a depression determination precision of 0.001 mm
  • Surtronic 3+1 – a mobile device for measuring structural parameters and surface corrugation of both metallic and non-metallic materials; it can be also used for measuring bulky and difficult to handle pieces
• Laboratory of forming process simulations - high-performance workstations for software: ANSYS, LS DYNA 3D, DEFORM, FORMFEM
• Laboratory of cramming tests
  • CZR 600 hydraulic press
  • electric furnace
  • insulated and fully programmable LVDT and bridge amplifier
  • dynamometer
  • thermocouple insulating amplifier with a thermocouple (-100 to1350 °C)
  • complete software package for collection and evaluation of DEWESOFT data
• Heavy press shop and forging shop
  • XKM 2000/2 bending machine
  • NTE 3150/6,3 mechanical shears
  • rolling machine XZM 2000/4
  • CBJ 500-6 hydraulic press
  • eccentric press LENR 40 A, LEPU 100, K 2130 B
  • CFA 80 compressor hammer
• Laboratory of mechanical properties of materials
  • Testing machine ZD 40 (400 kN) with an embedded incremental length sensor of crossbar position
  • the loading of samples in drawing, pressing and bending, and computer evaluation using the M-TEST application.