These various testing devices and facilities are available in the laboratory of the MPA NRW:

  • Five quasi static testing machines with a force measurement range up to 2500 kN
  • Four servo-hydraulic dynamic fatigue testing machines with a force measurement range up to 1600 kN
  • Two electromechanical resonance pulsators with a force measurement range up to 400 kN
  • Twelve long-period creep testing machines for tensile stress and relaxation testing machines with a force measurement range up to 300 kN and testing temperatures up to 1000 degrees centigrade
  • Four pendulum ram impact testing machines with a nominal work capacity range from 15 to 300 nm
  • One Pellini drop impact tester
  • Several testing devices for Brinell, Vickers and Rockwell hardness measurements