Short Description
TÜV AUSTRIA is an independent partner for testing, inspections, and certifications, bringing together extensive expertise in testing for research, development, and product safety.
For railway-related projects and services, TÜV AUSTRIA RAIL GmbH complements the portfolio of the Testing Center.
At the TÜV AUSTRIA Testing Center in Vienna (1230), customers have access to a versatile infrastructure for investigating materials, components, and products under a wide range of mechanical, environmental, and operational conditions. The scope of testing covers material properties, internal component structures, mechanical stresses, electrical safety, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
A key advantage of the TÜV AUSTRIA Testing Center is the ability to combine different testing methods and consolidate multiple testing requirements within a single facility.
By bringing these services together at one location, TÜV AUSTRIA offers an interdisciplinary one-stop-shop solution for research and development projects.
Our main services are:
- Structures- & component testing
- Materials testing & metallurgical analysis
- In-service measurement incl. MRT
- Failure analysis
- Engineering services
- Inspection & certification
Contact Person
Klaus Alberer
Research Services
- Structural & component testing, multiaxial static & dynamic
- Materials testing & metallography
- Industrial computed tomography iCT
- Climate simulation, temperature chambers
- In-service measurement
- Failure analysis
- Magnetic rope testing MRT
- Engineering services
- Inspection & Certification
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
We can test your components from small components to large, complex structures statically and dynamically. We design the ideal test program and test specifications for you, according to standard or your specifications.
- Testing field with 32 servo hydraulic controled channels up to 650 kN, 13x20 m
- Servo-hydraulic testing machines up to 630 kN
- Electro-dynamic testing machines up to 400 kN and 200 Hz
- Non-contact 3D strain measurement ARAMIS
- 250+ synchronised measuring channels
- Tensile testing machines up to 10 MN and 15 m clamping length
- Compression testing machines up to 1500 kN
- Torsion testing machine 10 kNm
- Temperature chambers, from -120 °C to +300 °C
- Fully equipped testing laboratory, universal testing machines up to 1000 kN
- Non-contact strain measurement ARAMIS
- Microscopes, light and REM/EDX
- Elemental analysis with spark spectrometry OES
- In-situ metallography, replica testing
- Climate testing chambers, 10 m³, -40 °C to +90 °C, humidity 95 %
- Corrosion testing, salt spray testing
- mobile hydrogen measuring probe
- Magnetic rope testing MRT
- Workshops for jig and sample manufacturing
TU Wien | https://www.tuwien.at
Institut für Tragkonstruktionen, TU Wien | https://www.tuwien.at/cee/tragkonstruktionen/labor
Bombardier Transportation Austria GmbH, Knorr-Bremse GmbH, Siemens AG, Vossloh AG, voestalpine AG, Rail-tech Deutschland GmbH, Plasser & Theurer GmbH, ÖBB Infra AG, SBB AG, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana S.p.A. (RFI), etc.
Bogie frame testing
Siemens AG, CRRC
MRT rope testing of most of the ropeway ropes in Austria, bridge ropes, guy ropes