Laboratory for Metals, Corrosion and Anti-Corrosion Protection
- we offer technical and expert support in the field of metals – corrosion and anti-corrosion protection
- we co-operate with industry, enterprises, and individuals who encounter problems or questions in connection with metals
- we combine together researchers and experts from different fields (metallurgy, chemistry, mechanical engineering, physics), and co-operate with researchers and experts in both Slovenia and other countries
- we provide high professional standards, the latest knowledge, and top-class research equipment
Services
- Tests and testing procedures of:
- Properties of metallic and non-metallic materials, products, and systems
- Corrosion
- Anti-corrosion protection of non-metallic and metallic coatings
- Non-destructive investigations of defects and damage to metal elements as well as to welded and other types of connections
- Metals in contact with drinking water
- Assessments, opinions, expert studies, inspections and surveillance
- Special inspections of cableway installations
- Certification and the issuing of Technical Assessments and Agreements
- Education and training
Research and development
- Development of sensors for monitoring the corrosion of metals in concrete
- Corrosion of copper in bentonite
- Mechanisms of local corrosion processes - stress corrosion cracking
- Tribo-corrosion processes
- Structures belonging to the cultural heritage
- Corrosion issues in connection with drinking water distribution systems
- The effect of surface treatments on the corrosion of stainless steels
Equipment
The Laboratory possesses the following top-class research and testing equipment:
- A MicroXCT-400 Micro Tomograph manufactured by Xradia (USA)
- A CORMET SSRT Autoclave
- An Empyrean X-ray diffractometer, manufactured by PANanalytical (The Netherlands), equipped with a micro diffraction modulus
- A TRIBOTECHNIC tribometer equipped with a corrosion cell (i.e. a pin on disc, reciprocal tribometer)
- A SpectroMAXx optical emission spectrometer for the chemical analysis of metals
- A Zwick Z2500Y universal testing machine with a nominal maximum load capacity of 2500 KN
- A JEOL 5500LV scanning electronic microscope, with OXFORD EDS analyser
- A LabRAM HR800 Raman spectrometer manufactured by Horiba Jobin Yvon
- A Carl Zeiss Axio 2009 metallographic-confocal microscope, with available magnifications of up to 1000x
- A floating version Autolab PGStat 100 potentiostat/galvanostat
- FORCE Technology GalvaPulseTM Galvanostatic pulse equipment
- WOLPERT-PW 30/15 K-E pendulum-type impact testing equipment for determining the impact toughness of metals using a hammer with a nominal absorbed energy of 150 J / 300 J
- A SCHENCK testing-machine for dynamic loadings
- A humidity environmental testing chamber
- An SO2 environmental testing chamber
- A saline environmental testing chamber
- WPM equipment for measuring the hardness of metals according to Brinell
- FRANK-FINOTEST equipment for measuring the hardness of metals according to Vickers
- MEGA-CHECK Profi equipment for measuring the thickness of coatings
- PROCEQ-EQUOTIP hand-transportable equipment for measuring the hardness of metals
- PROCEQ CANIN equipment for measuring the half-cell potential of steel reinforcement in concrete
