Mechanical and Marine Engineering Laboratory

Contacts:
Artūras Tadžijevas
marine.reliability@apc.ku.lt

testing of static and dynamic mechanical properties of materials and structures

• Electromechanical Zwick / Roell servo testing actuator for tensile, bending and compression tests
  • load up to 20 kN, test speed up to 500 mm/min, dimensions of test area 420 mm x 700 mm
  • load up to 100 kN, test speed up to 750 mm/min, dimensions of test area 700 mm x 850 mm
  • load up to 250 kN, test speed up to 1000 mm/min, dimensions of test area 650 mm x 500 mm
• Hydraulic Zwick / Roell equipment for bending and compression tests
  • compression up to 3000 kN load, strain rate up to 200 mm/min, testing area 400 mm x 400 mm x 500 mm
  • bending up to 200 kN load, strain rate 200 mm / min, test area 1200 mm x 600 mm x 1000 mm
• Vickers, Brinell, Rockwell, Knoop hardness tests
• metallographic microscope for metal microstructure testing
• a desk spectroscope for steel chemical composition testing
• 10 channel deformation acquisition system for testing of structures deformation
• Electromechanical or electromagnetic Zwick / Roell testing machines for dynamic testing
  • fatigue tests of stiff specimens up to 300 Hz, using 250 kN dynamic load, working area 650 mm x 500 mm
  • fatigue tests of semi-stiff specimens up to 2 Hz, using 5 kN dynamic load, equipment can be mounted directly on the structure
  • Charpy impact toughness tests for impact energy determination up to 450 J, initial velocity of 5,3 m/s
  • Charpy/Izod impact toughness and impact tensile tests for fracture energy determination up to 2000 J, with a high initial velocity of up to 20 m/s, using dropping weight equipment

diagnostics and monitoring of rotating machinery, dynamic rotor balancing and thermovision

• measurement of vibration acceleration, displacement and other technological parameters, monitoring and analysis using multichannel vibration data acquisition system, sampling rate up to 52 kS/s, possibility to measure up to 10 analogue and 12 digital sensors or transducers synchronically
• monitoring and analysis of vibration acceleration and displacement using multichannel vibration data acquisition system, sampling rate up to 52 kS/s, 4 channel
• dynamic balancing of rotors up to 100 kg mass, 800 mm length, 100 mm diameter
• thermal diagnostics of industrial equipment

digital image recognition technology

• development of equipment for product colour recognition and dimension measurement in direct production flow
• development of video recognition equipment for recognition of live parameters from streaming production lines

non-destructive testing services

• magnetic particle inspection tests of welded joints and castings (MT)
• determination of surface defects on welded joints and castings using penetrant method (PT)
• ultrasonic welded joint inspection (UT)
• ultrasonic thickness measurements