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Research Infrastructures

Planet Research

In the Research Infrastructures section, the editorial team presents selected research facilities at TU Graz and explains what they can do and how researchers are currently using them.
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Micro-CT Lab: Looking Deeply into Material Structures

Since the innovative Micro-CT Lab at TU Graz went into operation in 2022, researchers from TU Graz, the Uni Graz and the Med Uni Graz have been working together examining material structures.   Read more 2. March 2022

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In the Turbo-machinery Laboratory at TU Graz

In the Turbomachinery Laboratory at the Institute of Thermal Turbomachinery and Machine Dynamics at TU Graz, Emil Göttlich, head of the laboratory, and his research team study the aerodynamics of aircraft engines.   Read more 17. January 2022

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Birgit BAUSTÄDTER
Science Communications
Rechbauerstraße 12/I
8010 Graz, Austria
Phone: +43 316 873 6064
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Testing Centre for Medical Devices: Safety for Patients

Medical devices have been tested and certified at TU Graz for 45 years. It is important for patients to be able to rely on the safety and benefits of medical devices.

15. September 2021
At front there is the bioprinter. At the back Rupert Kargl.

Artificial Tissue from the 3D Bioprinter

At the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Biobased Systems, a new bioprinter recently entered service. It will produce individual models of blood vessels.

20. July 2021
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RCPE Pilot Plant: Highspeed Drug Production

What would fill entire factory halls in large production facilities, has been set up on just a few square meters at Inffeldgasse 13 in Graz: a production plant for medicines.

17. June 2021
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5G: Test innovative 5G ideas at TU Graz

Transfering much larger amounts of data faster over mobile networks – that's what the 5G mobile communications standard promises. Researchers are testing new applications for industrial use at smartfactory@tugraz.

4. February 2021
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How to Build a Test Bed

Researchers use test beds to test a variety of components for structural durability and behaviour. But there is often no suitable infrastructure on the market. How do researchers deal with this?

1. February 2021
Mehrdad Imani Tilenoei works at the triaxial facility.

Triaxial testing facility: Transition rock under pressure

Neither hard like stone, nor soft like soil: transition rock is important for almost every construction project, but difficult to study. But this is now possible at the TU Graz.

18. December 2020
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Shipping: Making the blue ocean greener

Even without living directly by the sea, researchers at TU Graz and the LEC are concerned about the environmental compatibility of merchant shipping and are researching wind and hydrogen-powered ships.

13. July 2020
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An order of magnitude makes all the difference

In chemical analysis, when electron microscopes reach their limits, the field emission microprobe steps in. With this equipment, taking analysis down to the next level of magnitude is no problem.

7. October 2019
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TU Graz researchers are getting a (nano) perspective

TU Graz operates two beamlines at the ‘Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste’ research facility in which structures and properties of materials can be investigated at the tiniest scale.

12. December 2018
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Quality of life in the best light

In TU Graz’s LightLab, an interdisciplinary team from the fields of architecture, light design and psychology are conducting research on the lighting systems of the future in close collaboration with the lighting industry.

13. October 2017
System test rig for the “GreenHVAC4Rail” project at the Institute of Thermal Engineering of TU Graz.

“Climate research” with a difference

As regards pioneering vehicle technologies, the focus is on more energy-efficient air-conditioning systems. New developments can be tested in the climatic chambers of the Institute of Thermal Engineering.

26. May 2017
Reinhard Braunstingl and Iona Koglbauer in the cockpit of the wide-body aircraft simulator at TU Graz.

Ready for Boarding

The Flight Simulation Research Platform at TU Graz makes it possible to scale the virtual heights with a wide-body aircraft and a light aircraft.

21. February 2017
The Austrian handcyclist Thomas Frühwirth in the wind tunnel of TU Graz.

Aerodynamics on the test rig

Air flow at the touch of a button. In the wind tunnels of TU Graz, aerodynamic tests are carried out on top athletes, automobiles and even building models.

19. January 2017
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The latest developments in welding

From high-end products for aerospace and engines to power plant construction and medical engineering – electron beam technology is an innovative method that straddles the border between basic research and application.

21. July 2016
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The Digital Revolution in the Workshop

"Advanced Manufacturing“ is the digital revolution in the workshop. It is reason, that products with very specific features can now be produced at all.

29. June 2016