Mechanical testing provide information on material properties usable for quality control as well as data to feed models and simulations. MM section has the capacities to perform tension, flexural and compression tests as well as cyclic testing on a wide variety of material and specimen shapes. Moreover, electromechanical testing machines of 10 kN and 250 kN meet has been recently purchased.
Testing at low temperature (77 K and 4 K) is also possible hanks to a dewar and a cryostat developed in-house. The measurement is performed by immersion of the load train and specimen in liquid nitrogen or helium. This technique has certain limits in terms of load, mode of charge and specimen geometry.
The recent acquisition of a 100 kN capacity dynamic machine allow to start cyclic testing and stepping in the fracture mechanics field (crack opening, speed of crack propagation, fracture toughness tests etc…).
In addition to capacities described above, digital image correlation equipment complements usually used equipment of extensometer as contact or video ones.
Type of test
- Tensile test
- Compression test
- Bend test
- Fatigue test
- Fracture toughness test
- Cryogenic temperature tests
- Digital Image correlation (DIC)
- Hardness and Micro-hardness tests
- Instrumented nanoindentation
Equipment
- Z10, electromechanical testing machine 10 kN capacity from ZwickRoell
- Z250, electromechanical testing machine 250 kN capacity from ZwickRoell
- EFH 100 FR, dynamic testing machine 100 kN capacity machine from Microtest
- DIC Q400 system from Limess
- Hardness tester ZHU250 from ZwickRoell
- Step 700 - UNHT3 Ultra nanoindenter from Anton Paar
Instrumented nanoindentation testing system in Building 376/R-004
Universal and dynamic testing machines located in the Mechanical Testing area in Building 112/R-E22