Plastic products with best quality, lifelong High-quality plastic products require a precise conformity of component properties with customer expectations. These properties are unique for each component and result from the combination of factors like material properties (mechanical, thermal, chemical,…), component design, material processing and conditions of use (nature and duration of load, ambient medium, …). In order to optimize your product in the most efficient way, we aim to improve the measurement of component properties towards higher accuracy, rapidity and convenience. Our research activities focus on both developing new measuring techniques (especially accelerated or nondestructive tests) and adapting existing ones to new application ranges. The accelerated measurement of long-time and ageing behaviour is one of our key activities. We also study structure-property relationships in order to achieve a targeted optimization of plastic products. We focus on Testing of mechanical properties of materials and components (Creep and relaxation behaviour, fatigue behaviour of plastic parts under cyclic loading, impact properties, …)  more... Ageing behaviour of plastic parts (Influence of heat, UV radiation and chemicals)  more... Accelerated test methods  more... Nondestructive testing (NDT) of plastic parts  more... Analysis of structure-property relationships (Morphology, residual stresses, orientations/anisotropy, …)  more... Colour properties of plastic products  more... Contact: Dr.-Ing. Kurt Engelsing Phone: +49 (0)931 4104-147 e-Mail: k.engelsing@skz.de Team assistant: Andrea Hofmann M.A. Phone: +49 (0)931 4104-433 Fax: +49 (0)931 4104-707 e-Mail: a.hofmann@skz.de Technical equipment component properties/product quality (Testing possibilities at SKZ) Overview research  All contact persons research Finished research projects