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

Research and development

• 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

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
• PA 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 CANIN equipment for measuring the half-cell potential of steel reinforcement in concrete