Research projects in cooperation with HESSEL Ingenieurtechnik:
EC - PolyTank - Project: http://www.polytank.eu/ Development and Validation of an Automated Ultrasonic System for the Non-Destructive Evaluation of Welded Joints in Thermoplastic Storage Tanks
EC - TestPEP - Project: Development and Validation of an Automated Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) Approach for Testing Welded Joints in Plastics Pipes
Research projekt with industrial partners 1690: Determination of the maximum operating pressure of pipes made from PE100-RC installed by the burstlining procedure
Research projekt with industrial partners 1430: Long term properties of reprocessed Polyolefines
Research projekt with industrial partners 1421: Integrity of tanks using a failure predicting test specimen
Research project with industrial partners "PAS 1075: Pipes made from Polyethylene for alternative installation techniques"
Research projekt with industrial partners 1316: Welding and testing of heavy wall pipes made from polypropylene (wall thickness up to 100 mm)
Research projekt with industrial partners 1216: Creep rupture behaviour of sheets and large pipes made from Polyethylene
Research projekt with industrial partners 1085: Harmonisation of Polyethylene pipe buttfusion procedures and test methods (Click: "Presentation in Budapest 2008")
EC CRAFT - Project: The Development and Validation of Non-Destructive Testing Techniques for Electrofusion Joints in Polyethylene Pipes
Flexible pipes for district - heating, section 4: Creep rupture behaviour and thermal ageing of medium pipes and the welded joints
DVGW - Project GW3/05/02: Influences of non-conventional pipe installation (no sandbed / no dig) on the service life of polyethylene (PE) pipelines
Internal research projects of HESSEL Ingenieurtechnik:
A new method to draw up minimum creep rupture curves for stress crack resistance materials
A cost-cutting and time-saving method to draw up creep rupture curves for rotation moulding grades
Investigations of the effects of processing on the creep behaviour of moulded parts
Effects of different wetting agents
Creep rupture behaviour of rotation-moulding grades
Activation energy in FNCT on pipe- and blow-moulding grades
Round robin tests of FNCT with external test laboratories
Correlation between FNCT/2NCT and long-term internal pressure tests of pipes