Whether microstructure, structural state, or mechanical behaviour – heat treatment is critical to understanding materials. With our expertise and modern equipment, we support you in the targeted adjustment, simulation, and analysis of heat treatment conditions. This creates a solid basis for meaningful materials investigations – reproducible, traceable, and tailored to your specific questions.
Vacuum and protective gas heat treatments – hardening, annealing, tempering, etc., on specimens, components, small series, and sample batches
Inductive heat treatment – development of induction heat treatment processes on bar material
TTT / CCT diagram generation (ZTU / ZTA) – customer-specific determination of transformation diagrams for steels
B-H curve measurement – frequency- and amplitude-dependent recording of material-specific B-H curves
Custom, instrumented heat treatment processes under (convective) vacuum
Temperature-controlled heat treatment of specimens and components including controlled quenching (l_min = 0.2)
Tempering or annealing under (convective) vacuum, protective gas (Ar, N₂), or atmospheric conditions
Investigation of steels, in particular highly alloyed, multiphase stainless steels
Physical simulation of heat treatment processes using a quenching dilatometer
Determination of time–temperature–transformation (TTT) diagrams and time–temperature–austenitising (TTA) diagrams
Robust material selection: precise, material-specific data on magnetic permeability and magnetisation losses (core losses)
Optimisation of electromagnetic components: enables accurate simulation and design of inductors, transformers, and electric motors to maximise efficiency and performance
Loss minimisation: knowledge of frequency- and amplitude-dependent losses (B-H curves) supports the selection of optimal materials for energy-efficient applications
