Mechanical Testing Capabilities

Mechanical Load Frames

• Instron 4206 - 150 kN maximum load with MTS Testworks Elite Software
  • Tensile, compression, three-point bend, and four-point bend testing
  • Displacement, load, and strain control
• Instron 4210 -  600 kN maximum load with MTS testworks Elite Software
  
  • Tensile testing, compression testing, ausforming, extrusion, and other hot-forming deformation
  • 3 kW induction heating
  • Thermal chamber for mechanical testing from -130℃ to 350℃
  • Displacement, load, and strain control
• Instron 4468 - 50 kN maximum load with displacement control
  
  • Instron 4468 - 50 kN maximum load with displacement control
• Instron 4207 - 200 kN maximum load
  • Tensile, compression, three-point bend, and four-point bend testing
  • Displacement, load, and strain control 
  • Slow speed capability as low as 0.001 mm/min

Servo Hydraulic Load Frames

• Instron 8501- 100 kN maximum load with MTS Multipurpose Testware Control
  
  • Fatigue testing up to 30 Hz
  • Top actuated
• MTS Frame - 100 kN maximum load with MTS Multipurpose Testware Control
  
  • Fatigue testing up to 30 Hz
  • 5 kW induction heating for elevated temperature testing
  • Bottom actuated

Creep Testing

• Applied Test Systems Frame - 25 kN capacity
  
  • Test temperatures up to 1200℃

Rotating Beam Fatigue Testing

• Fatigue Dynamics - 10,000 RPM maximum
  • Up to 200 in-lbs bending moment load
  • ⅜’’ and ½’’ collets available

Flexural Fatigue Testing

• Automated Industries - constant speed testing
  • Machinery available for both thin sheet and thick sheet/plate