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News Release from: Instron | Subject: ETMT 8800, a multifunctional test system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 February 2006
Multifunctional system tests conductive
materials
Instron has introduced the ETMT 8800, a multifunctional test system developed in collaboration with the NPL, the UK's National Measurement Laboratory.
Instron, a leading provider of testing equipment designed to evaluate mechanical properties of materials and components, has introduced the ETMT 8800, a multifunctional test system developed in collaboration with the NPL, the UK's National Measurement Laboratory Instron's ETMT 8800 is ideally suited for testing metals and other conductive materials in industries ranging from metal processing and production to advanced engineering, e.g aerospace
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 2 Dec 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ETMT 8800 is modeled after Instron's advanced 8800 digital controller and Microtester test frame.
Combined with a direct resistance heating system, it offers full reverse stress loading to 3 kN and unrivalled thermomechanical capabilities up to 1500*C.
The ETMT 8800 is ideal for measuring mechanical and physical properties and micro structural stability under thermal exposure.
It provides rapid and cost effective assessment of materials that are in short supply, for example when dealing with short run prototype materials in product development, in residual lifetime evaluation of plant or when testing expensive materials.
Using miniature test pieces, the ETMT 8800 can achieve fatigue loading rates from 20N/sec to 1000 N/sec and heating rates up to 200 deg C/sec.
Additionally, the test system is designed to study the thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) properties of nickel-based superalloys, hard metals (such as tungsten carbide) and lead-free solders.
Instron's ETMT 8800 can also be used to determine the resistivity, thermal expansion coefficients, and phase transformations in a variety of materials, including steels, titanium alloys and intermetallics.
For use with reactive materials, the ETMT 8800 may be equipped with a high integrity evacuable capsule.
An NPL developed "multi-property" software interface allows real time operator interaction with the system, while a range of proprietary, multi-axial general purpose fatigue software further extends the system's functionality.
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