Failure, Fracture and Fatigue laboratory Facilities
EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES
Ultrasonic Fatigue testing (USF-2000A)
•Very High (Giga) Cycle Fatigue
ARBM 120 AMSLER ROTARY BENDING
- Equipped with an AHTF 850-A high-temperature furnace
- Cycle counts to 109 can be configured
- The rotating bar bending fatigue test can be performed at elevated temperatures up to 850°C.
hydraulic 100kN axial load frame
MTS Closed-loop servo-controlled hydraulic 100kN axial load frame with Instron Digital
Servo-controller with an environmental chamber
biaxial (axial and torsion) load frame
Instron closed-loop servo-controlled biaxial (axial and torsion) load frame with a
100kN axial and 1kNm torsion capacity
MEG 20TT
The MEG 20TT is a high temperature ultrasonic fatigue tester. Capacity is 20 kN and
max temperature is 1200 degrees C
TYPICAL TESTING
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Tensile testing
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Strain-controlled fatigue testing (e-N)
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Load-controlled fatigue testing (S-N)
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Fatigue crack growth testing (da/dN-DK)
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Fracture toughness testing (K1c, J1c, R-curve)
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Component fatigue testing
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Spectrum cyclic loading
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Creep testing
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Hot and cold temperature testing
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Fractomat Crack Detecting System
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Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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Software capabilities