TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA Prüf- und Forschungs GmbH

TÜV AUSTRIA TVFA Prüf- und Forschungs GmbH

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Open for Collaboration

Short Description

TVFA is a leading provider of mechanical component testing, materials testing, inspection and certification. Our locations in Vienna offer mechanical testing on components of any material, geometry and size. Our experienced team, state-of-the-art equipment and select partnerships enable peak performance.

We support our customers in developing and improving the safety and performance of their products. We design, perform and evaluate complex mechanical testing of components and assemblies.

As part of the TÜV AUSTRIA Group and the TU-Wien, Vienna University of Technology, we meet the highest standards of safety and innovation to the same extent. Our tests and analyses make state-of-the-art technologies safe and competitive. We guarantee this as an independent, state-accredited testing and inspection body as well as certification body (EN ISO/IEC 17020, 17025, 1765).

Our main services are:
- Structures- & component testing
- Materials testing & metallurgical analysis
- In-service measurement incl. MRT
- Failure analysis
- Engineering services
- Inspection & certification

Contact Person

Dr. Joachim Rajek

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