Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Solution of Choice in Metals Testing


The Solution of Choice in Metals Testing

Zwick testing machines and accessories: Number one in metals testing.
Together with our partners in the Zwick-Roell Group, we offer you a complete selection of testing machines and systems for metal materials and components testing. We are able to supply a number of patented solutions, e.g., machines with hybrid drives, and accessories developed especially for specific metals tests. Our intelligent test software testXpert® is extremely functional and contains all the relevant testing processes for metals tests.

Our broad product selection for metals testing encompasses many applications. Here are just a few examples:

  • Specimen preparation

  • Tensile, bending, and stress testing (static and dynamic)

  • Testing over extended temperature ranges

  • Fracture mechanics, rotary bending tests, dynamic fatigue tests

  • Impact tests

  • Quick tear and puncture tests

  • Hardness tests

  • Indentation tests

  • Test automation


Porta system with specimen magazine for 133 specimens

Testing of Heavy Plate: Light Task of Measuring Heavy Samples

The tensile testing of heavy plate poses various challenges to the steel in-dustry. With test specimens weighing up to 10kg operators can have diffi-culty trying to accurately place and align the specimen in the grips of the test-ing machine. Zwick recently provided one of its customers with a completely automatic solution which also allows testing 24 hours per day.



Everything Automatic… and Still Flexible

Zwick has developed a robotic testing system for testing steel concrete reinforcing bars and concrete mesh reinforcement which performs all the testing automatically, yet still allows flexible testing around the clock.


Small feed system for wires with magazine for 20 specimens

Testing of Metal Wire: Improving the reliability of test data

Tensile tests for metal specimens such as wires are often performed in small se-ries of 5 to 20 single specimens. This provides a statistical value for the test re-sults and can identify individual deviations. The time required for testing a series with 20 specimens is somewhere between 15 and 45 minutes, depending on specimen strain and testing speed. If multiple operators perform the tests, the re-sults generally show greater variance. Even different hand temperatures can be a contributing factor.


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