BDAR

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