Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM
Our facilities offer a wide range of possibilities for glass analysis, processing and shaping. Here, in addition to the institute’s resources, we have further special equipment at our disposal for glass as a material.
Facilities
Embossing | Forming
- Hot stamping machine
- Laser for heating
- Glass press
Bending
- Furnaces
- Research furnace
- Chamber furnace
- Glass bending machine
- Research furnace
- High-power laser
- Laser scanner
- Thermal camera for process-monitoring
Sample preparation | Handling
- Sample preparation
- Belt sanding equipment
- Wire saw
- Diamond composite saw
- Glass jigsaw
- Glass drill
- Bench and pillar drill
- Water jet cutter
- Belt sanding equipment
Cutting
- Separating
- Diode laser
Joining
- Joining
- Research furnace
- Soldering unit
Damage analysis
- Loading, measuring and testing
- electromechanical tensile-compression testing machines
- Ball impact tester
- Climate chambers
- Fatigue test benches
- Test rigs for static long-term loads
- Interferometer
- Microscopy
- optical light microscopy
- SEM
- TEM
- Raman spectroscopy
- Polariscopy systems for
- Transmitted light
- Reflection
- Edge stress
- Scattered light
- Large-scale polariscopy