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News Release from: Zwick Testing Machines | Subject: MultiXtense
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2006
Extensometer offers flexible test
regimes
The multiXtens is perfectly suited for research, education, and commercial testing laboratories where test requirements are constantly changing.
Zwick believes that its multiXtense extensometer is the only device available that is capable of measuring modulus of elasticity with a resolution of less than 0.1um, and elongation to failure with a measuring range of 700mm (minus the initial gauge length) In order to speed up testing on different specimen geometries the gauge length can be automatically set to the required value or as a function of the specimen cross-sectional area
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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A unique and innovative "plug and play" sensor arm system enables the multiXtens to be used for most tensile, compression and cyclic tests - even those carried out inside a temperature chamber.
Compression and flexure tests previously requiring the use of analogue measuring transducers can be carried out simply by interchanging the sensor arms, and the system recognises and adapts to the change of configuration immediately without requiring any operator intervention.
The multiXtens is perfectly suited for research, education, and commercial testing laboratories where test requirements are constantly changing.
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With today's conventional testing machines it is often necessary to use more than one extensometer, but with its digital technology, high accuracy, flexibility and ease of use, the multiXtens reduces the setup time, maintenance, and recalibration costs associated with such testing.
Typical applications for the deployment of the multiXtens are tensile, compression, and flexure tests on plastics, metals, composites, and other materials where small displacements, modulus determination and high elongation is to be measured.
For even more demanding tests requiring transverse strain measurements such as r value determination on metals or Poisson ratio, the multiXtens can be equipped with an automatic transverse strain extensometer.
This device can be attached automatically at the start of the tensile test and removed before specimen fracture enabling the multiXtens to be used in robotic testing applications and deliver additional benefits in cases where the manual handling of specimens affects the integrity of the test results.
MultiXtens complies with class 0.5 of EN ISO9513 over its entire measuring range, and as with most Zwick's products its operation is totally integrated into the proprietary software, testXpert II.
Laboratories with many different test requirements will appreciate the vast library of standard tests as well as the capability to build complex and nonstandard test procedures. Request a free brochure from Zwick Testing Machines ...
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