• Coarse and fine cutting machines for sample preparation
• Devices for hot and cold mounting of specimens
• Automated and manual grinding and polishing devices
• Electrochemical polishing and etching equipment
• Light microscopes incl. digital image capture and automatic xy-table for the analysis of large specimens
• Stereo microscope incl. 3D image capture
• Quantitative image analysis system
• Baehr quenching dilatometer (DIL805A)
• Nanofocus µsurf confocal microscope (profilometer) with automatic xy-table (analysis of large surfaces)
• Mobile surface roughness measurement device Hommel Etamic W10
• Instrumented microhardness, small load and macro hardness testers in the load range from 20 mN to 2500 N (HV, HRC, HB, HM) with automatic xy-testing tables
• Room temperature tribometer in the load range from 1 to 10 N