Saturday, January 24, 2009

Preparation of Flat Specimens


Specimen stamping presses are used to produce the most commonly implemented specimen shapes (shoulder specimen to DIN EN 10002, JIS Z 2201, ASTM E8, etc.) up to a thickness range of 8mm. The final shape of the specimen is stamped slightly over dimensioned (strain-hardening zone) and can then be simply and quickly ground down to size. The slow cutting speed and the optimized configuration of the die reduce the size of the strain-hardened zone to less than 10% of the specimen thickness.

The specimen grinding machine must not only remove this hardened zone, it must also guarantee the shape tolerances (parallelism in the test dimension) stipulated by the standards.

Specimen Grinding Machine Zwick 7130

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