Department of ElectroMechanical, Systems and Metal Engineering

Cases & test equipment

Here you may find an overview of different cases and test equipment facilities at Soete Laboratory University Ghent.

Bend setup for submarine power cables
Preventing overbending is a critical factor in extending the lifetime of submarine power cables. The capabilities of fiber optic based monitoring techniques have been shown, but its potential of detecting submarine power cable bending remain unclear.
Bend setup for submarine power cables
DIC measuring system
Digital image correlation and tracking is an optical method that employs tracking and image registration techniques for accurate 2D and 3D measurements of changes in images.
Soete DIC setup
Charpy test setup
Determine the failure mode of your material (brittle or ductile) at different temperatures, notch locations and orientations. This destructive test evaluates a material's impact resistance, also known as toughness.
TINIUS OLSEN 400 Joules impact hammer
Large scale thrust bearing test setup
investigate the friction and wear behavior of axial thrust washers, more particularly pintle bearings.
Investigate the friction and wear behavior of axial thrust washers, more particularly pintle bearings.
RR Moore Rotating Beam Fatigue Testing System
Perform fatigue testing at higher frequencies, up to 166Hz, leading to faster actionable data compared to axial fatigue testing.
Perform fatigue testing at higher frequencies.
Full scale 4-point bend setup of pipes
Full scale bending with internal pressure (64bar) of a ball joint pipe with OD of 400mm.
internal pressure fatigue
4 point bending test equipment
Featured to perform fatigue tests in 3- or 4 point bending of beams and girders. Typical examples are rails for tracks or train applications and leaf springs.
Bending of girders and rails
Universal Multipurpose test rigs up to 2500kN
Featured to perform various types of tests, e.g.: tensile tests, fatigue testing of welded components, four-point bend tests, …
MTS 1000kN with DIC setup
Bespoke test setup up to 8000kN
Our high capacity test setup allows testing on a variety of test pieces in static loading (round bar and flat strip tests, notched tensile tests, cross-weld tensile tests)
Soete bespoke test setup 8000kN
Large scale bearing test setup
Investigate the friction and wear behavior of large journal bearings operating in boundary lubrication or dry friction regimes.
Large Scale Bearing setup
Small scale tribometers type pin-on-disk
Wazou, Pin-On-Disk and High Temperature (HTH) CSM Tribometer are some of our small scale tribometers.
Our CSM tribometer
Conveyor chain wear test-rig
The conveyor chain test-rig is a full scale test equipment designed and built to perform wear test on conveyor chains.
Soete laboratory Logo
Torque setup
Our torque machine can be customized to perform a various range of torsion test.
Torque machine
Shackle chain wear test-rig
The test rig generates and measures wear in a single shackle contact and uses therefore full scale specimens with the correct geometry.
Full scale specimens with the correct geometry.
Back-to-back gear tester (FZG)
Wear and damage testing of finished gears under controlled load, speed and lubrication conditions
Wear and damage testing of finished gears
Large scale flat on flat tribometers
Estimating lifetimes of engineering polymers and friction materials by means of applying heavy loads and low sliding velocities on large scale samples.
Large scale flat on flat tribometers
Universal mechanical tester - tribology
Our universal mechanical tester provides tribology testing for friction, wear, coatings, and lubrication in macro, micro, and nano regimes.
Tribology testing
Modular test floor 4000 kN
Laboratory Soete is equipped with a modular test floor of 15 m by 60 m
modular test floor of 15 m by 60 m
Keyence VR 5200 wide-area 3D measurement system and Taylor Hobson CCI HD Optical Profiler
Obtain quick 3D imaging and analysis with a non-contact measuring system. The post-processing analysis software offers highly accurate measurements of the scanned object's surface topology, roughness, contour, and form.
The Keyence VR 5200 wide-area 3D measurement system
LECO LV-100-AT automatic hardness tester
Questions regarding wear resistance and machinability? Finding the Vickers hardness will help you choose and inspect your material.
LECO LV-100-AT
Pressure testing services
For its qualification and/or (remaining) lifetime assessment, pressure vessels (such as pipes, heat exchangers, accumulators, etc.) must be evaluated.
The evaluation of pressure vessels (such as pipeline, heat exchangers, accumulators, …)
software
A selection of our software (academic licenses)
software (academic licenses)