RTI offers research organisations and companies long-term cooperation and the possibility of carrying out contract research or within the framework of the Business and Innovation Voucher Programme. RTI has built a wide customer base through the quality of its work. The high standard of services provided (quality, form, speed) is a matter of course. RTI is able to handle complex research projects in the following main areas :

Machining

• Application of suitable cutting tools and jigs using progressive machining strategies.
• NC machine programming
• introduction of new approaches and procedures in machining

METAL ADDITIVE PRODUCTION

• additive manufacturing of metal parts
• preparation and oprimitazion of print models
• design and manufacture of cutting tools
• microgeometry modification and surface polishing

 

EXPERIMENTAL FORMING

• testing new ideas in the field of material technology
• optimization and integration of processes leading to extraordinary material properties or efficient non-conventional thermomechanical processing technologies

MECHANICAL TESTING LABORATORY

• tensile, compression, bending impact tests
• hardness testing, cyclic loading, etc., mainly on metallic materials and plastics
• problems of production and testing of so-called small samples from a limited amount of material

SERVICE STRENGTH AND FATIGUE LIFE TESTING LABORATORY

• verification of components for railway applications under torsion and tension
• vibrodiagnostics of components such as gearboxes, traction motors and other equipment
• dynamic testing of components and material samples on a universal electrohydraulic loading system
• life evaluation including probabilistic sizing methods

EXPERIMENTAL ENGINEERING METHODS

• support for research and development in the fields of manufacturing technologies and materials
• designing unique solutions and new types of equipment
• production and testing of prototypes and functional samples
• measurement of operational loads and responses, dynamic properties, noise, residual stresses in materials or thermal effects on various objects

METALLOGRAPHY

• research on transformation processes and microstructure development in thermal and thermo-mechanical processing
• study of the high-temperature behaviour of materials
• in-situ deformation and temperature experiments
• measurement of local mechanical properties

METROLOGY

• Highly advanced metrology analysis of complex shaped and precision components
• designing control and evaluation strategies for measurement systems
• contact and non-contact 3D scanning
• digitisation for reverse engineering

VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING

• virtual product development
• designing structures using the latest CAx systems
• advanced computational analysis
• developing efficient designs

ENERGY ENGINEERING

• research of fluid flow and heat transfer using experimental and numerical methods
• theoretical and experimental studies of turbulent flows
•  calibrations of anemometric probes 
• focus on the calculations and construction of energy machinery and equipment for nuclear and renewable  resources.