Universal testing machines
Universal Testing Machines can conduct a wide variety of tests, catering to the diverse needs of industries such as aerospace, automotive, construction, and materials science.
Here are some of the key tests performed by UTMs and their applications:
Tensile Testing
- What it does: Measures the force required to pull a material until it breaks. This test determines a material’s tensile strength, elongation, and modulus of elasticity.
- Applications: Used for metals, plastics, textiles, wires, and composites to ensure they meet the required strength specifications for their intended use.
Compression Testing
- What it does: Applies a compressive force to materials to determine their behavior under compression. It assesses compressive strength, yield strength, and the modulus of elasticity under compression.
- Applications: Critical for materials like concrete, foam, and metals used in structural applications, packaging, and automotive components.
Flexural/Bending Testing
- What it does: Applies a bending force to a sample to evaluate its flexural strength and modulus. This test is essential for understanding how a material behaves under bending or flexural stress.
- Applications: Important for materials used in beams, pipes, and plastic components where bending resistance is crucial.
Shear Testing
- What it does: Measures the material’s ability to resist forces that can cause the material’s internal layers to slide against each other.
- Applications: Useful for adhesives, composites, and metal alloys where shear strength is a key property for their application.
Peel Testing
- What it does: Assesses the adhesive strength of bonded materials by measuring the force required to peel one material away from another at a specific angle.
- Applications: Widely used in packaging, laminates, and bonded structures to ensure the integrity of adhesive joints.
Tear Testing
- What it does: Determines the force required to continue the tearing of an initial cut in sheet materials.
- Applications: Essential for materials like textiles, plastics, and paper where tear resistance is important for the product’s durability.
Creep Testing
- What it does: Measures the deformation of a material over time under a constant load at a constant temperature.
- Applications: Important for materials used in high-temperature environments, such as metals in engine parts or plastics in electronics, to ensure long-term performance.
These tests, among others, allow UTMs to be versatile tools in the evaluation, development, and quality control of materials and products across various industries.
We offer a full range of Universal Testing Machines
- For lower force up to 5 kN we can provide Lloyd Instruments LS series testers, more info here >
- For force up to 100 kN we can provide Lloyd Instruments LD series machines , more info here >
- For higher force testing over 100 kN we can provide Techlab-Metrotec MTE series machines >