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On site again: JEC World, the leading international composites show, will take place in Paris from May 3 to 5, 2022. Of course, as a testing service provider in the field of plastics and composites, we will be there. This year you will meet us twice during your visit! You will find us at the joint booth with @Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH in hall 5 at booth C80. In addition, we will present ourselves and our services as part of @Applus+ Laboratories in hall 6 at booth E51. Our colleagues André Tost, Head of Department Materials Testing Plastics and Composites, Project Engineers for Materials Testing of Plastics and Composites Frank Engelmann and Andy Preusche as well as Sales Manager Dajana Kolev will be on site and are looking forward [...]
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Whether real and fluffy or made of chocolate - most people imagine bunnies when thinking of Easter. It’s a lovely tradition to hide the chocolate bunnies in the garden so that the family, mostly children, go searching for them. And, of course, eat them. Interestingly enough, there are so many ways to break the hollow chocolate body into small pieces. But which one’s the best as the chocolate bunny isn’t so easily crushed: biting off the head at first, squeeze ears in first or placing it on its side and pressing down with the flat of your hand? At IMA Dresden, we don't deal with chocolate Easter bunnies - unless we eat them. But we are experts when it comes to testing the strength of materials and components – even most "delicate" materials. [...]
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Thermoplastic materials offers versatile possibilities in automotive applications. As an external laboratory, we have now received the qualification from @BMW Group for testing thermoplastic materials. The approved procedures include, among others, tensile tests, bending tests, climate change tests as well as the determination of impact strength and notched impact strength. In 2020, we have already received qualification for the testing of fiber composites. We are happy about the recognition of our work and expertise. [...]
Read moreWe are counting the days till the 47th Schienenfahrzeugtagung in Graz! Our colleague Dr. Thorsten Voigt will attend the conference on April 3 to 5. He is looking forward to meeting you on-site. https://www.schienenfahrzeugtagung.at/en/home-2/ueber-die-tagung/ [...]
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Right now, Europe needs energy security more than ever. Renewables such as wind energy are the future. At the @Windeurope in Bilbao, Spain (April 5 to 7), hundreds of experts from across the wind industry are getting together to discuss the role of wind energy, a strong European supply chain and much more pressing topics. And we’re right in the middle of it! You’ll find our expert for wind energy, Karl Scheffler, at Stand B-53 in Hall 1 together with Applus+ Laboratories. We are looking forward to meeting you on-site. [...]
Read moreIMA Dresden plays a leading role in the field of building products. In accordance with the product standard EN 14509 and the Testing Rules for Panels of PPA-Europe - we test complete sandwich elements or individual components of the panels such as the face layer, fastening system or core materials (rigid plastic foam or mineral wool). For quasi-static and also dynamic component testing on sandwich elements, we have developed a test bench that tests sandwich elements with a maximum length of 8 metres and a width of more than 2 metres until complete failure. In addition to the standardised single-span girder test, customer-specific multi-span girder systems can also be tested. The testing of the components with regard to the stress caused by wind [...]
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Women have always been an integral part of our team at IMA Dresden. They work in human ressources, in sales and administration, marketing or as engineers. Today, we thank you: for your commitment, your innovative thoughts and your teamwork. Thank you for everything!”Instead of red cloves, we’ve got a wonderful bouquet of flowers in our corporate colours for you. Have a wonderful day! [...]
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Regarding our test, we’ve got a lot of stamina. If necessary, we wait years and years to get important data. For our customer Fiberline Compsites A/S, we are right in the middle of a long-term test. Back in 2004, a bridge near our hometown Dresden, in Klipphausen was built. Not just a standard bridge, but one made with profiles of glass fibre reinforced plastics. It's the result of the so-called ASSET project funded by the EU to develop a competitive alternative to steel or concrete bridges. To get reliable data on the material properties, we joined the game and put nine sample sets of glass fibre reinforced plastic in the bridge. Periodically, test samples are taken out for examination to analyze whether the calculations for the ageing of [...]
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May we introduce you to one of our smallest assistants: the strain gauges. They are put on relevant points of the test object to measure the strain on it. As the object is deformed by a load, the metallic foil is deformed as well, causing its electrical resistance to change. As strain gauges are indispensable at IMA Dresden, we give you three facts about them: - Our smallest type of strain gauges measures only about 1,65x1,65 mm. - For the full-scale test on the Airbus A380-800 we installed 5,000 strain gauges. - During the last measurement runs with a tram that we carried out, a single strain gauge gathered 115.200.000 measured values in total. 451,200 values were recorded per second and 21,657,600,000 readings were recorded across all [...]
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It’s this time of the year again: road salt on the streets! Some car owner worry about the damage it can do to the car paint and sheet metal. In order to test the effect road salt has on vehicles, but also the pollution in areas of the maritime climate, we have expanded our environmental laboratory with a salt spray chamber. In this we carry out corrosion tests or salt spray tests. The test specimens are exposed to a salty fog atmosphere at an elevated temperature in order to simulate the stress caused by oxidizing, corrosive substances in a time-lapse effect. [...]
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