Purpose
Screw driven machine used to study the mechanical behaviour
of metallic materials under compression, tensile and cyclic loading conditions.
Specifications
- - Mechanically driven test frame
- - Capacity of 250kN
- - Temperature rates - 10-5/s to 0.1/s
- - Tensile/ Compression
- - Gas retort for high temperature testing of materials
- - Contact/ non-contact extensometry
- - Can be controlled in either a positional, load-controlled to true strain rate mode
- - Bespoke software designed for complex testing modes involving rapid changes to the strain rate