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ASMEC GmbH

The ASMEC Advanced Surface Mechanics GmbH provides hardware, software and services for the characterization and analysis of mechanical surface properties in the micro and nano range. It was founded in 2003 as a spin-off from the Institute of Physics of the University of Technology Chemnitz. The Universal Nanomechanical Tester (UNAT) of ASMEC is a novel instrument for the measurement of mechanical surface properties in the micro and nano range. The unique feature of the instrument is the realization of two completely independent measuring heads for the measurement of normal and lateral load-displacement curves with equal nanometre resolution. Due to the combination of both measuring heads, the UNAT can be used as hardness, wear, scratch, micro tensile and fatigue tester, as well as profilometer.

The simple replacement of the conventional diamond tips by indenters of any solid material allows the investigation of the original material contact in a tribological application with so far unrivalled accuracy. A high resolution optics gives you well resolved images of small indents or wear tracks. The fully automatic instrument can also be combined with an atomic force microscope or a white light confocal microscope.

Elastica presents the newest developments of contact mechanics in an easy to use, user friendly and very fast form. The purpose of this software is a fast analysis and optimization of coated systems in respect to their mechanical strength during surface contact. Further it enables the extraction of Young’s modulus values of thin films down to some nanometre thickness from purely elastic load-displacement measurements.

Indent Analyser is the ultimate software for the analysis of indentation data and the only instrument independent software on the market. The data analysis is done according to the ISO standard 14577. The software offers very sophisticated routines for thermal drift correction, zero point correction, area function or radius function calibration, calibration of instrument compliance and others. In an extensive comparison program together with the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), it was shown that hardness and modulus results obtained with this software agree better with reference values than that from other software.