The Testing Times

Tinius Olsen’s New model FH-6 Micro Vickers, Vickers and Micro Brinell hardness testing capability. It’s an automatic Vickers hardness tester using the turret technology to hold up to two different indenters and four objectives which automatically selected and utilized when test is started. This technology can help your business make money by increasing the efficiency of your Vickers tests. By using automation it cuts typical testing time in half, more for large pattern tests. And if the pattern tests per sample need to change, for example when testing around weld sites, the time saving is huge. Simply take the stored existing pattern, use it as a template and drag the intended indent points using the mouse or touch screen as required. This tester does not save you money, it makes you money. FH-6 Material testing machine is capable of performing physical strength test in hardness on raw materials such as metal, plastics, large parts and small precision parts, it is a very ...

These days angioplasty, is an endovascular procedure to widen narrowed or obstructed arteries or veins, is almost considered a routine procedure, yet the technology behind it is exacting and subject to rigorous quality and performance control. In this procedure a n empty, collapsed balloon, known as a balloon catheter, is passed over a wire into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size. The balloon forces expansion of the narrowing within the artery or vein and the surrounding muscular wall, opening up the blood vessel for improved flow, and the balloon is then deflated and withdrawn. A stent may, or may not, be inserted at the time of ballooning to ensure the vessel remains open. Not only are the stents themselves, and the wire used in their construction, tested for tensile strength, compressive strength and stiffness properties, so too are the balloon catheters used to deliver the stent into the body. In recent times, more attention is being paid to...

Hope to see you at Control exhibition in Stuttgart Germany April this year because we are launching two new fantastic products in automation of tension compression materials testing, it will all be live on our booth Hall 1 # 1327 check this clip for a preview of the event https://youtu.be/LrpSGSoJifo

A Tinius Olsen testing machine can be used to test the performance and strength of the very “ BIG ” say a piece 40mm diameter reinforcing bar ripping it apart under a tensile load of 889,644 N (90 metric tons force) or the very “ small ” say micro electronic and electrical components, forces less than 5 N . Testing electronic components requires small attachments which are fitted to the tension compression materials testing machine to hold the material under test and apply the required force. Recently we supplied a tension compression system which included a micro flex bend attachment to facilitate bend tests on flexible membranes used in mobile and cell phones. The unit pictured part 99-1004733-330-034 is a variable span (can be adjusted by the user) 3 point flexural bend attachment with a span up to 30mm and points of contact diameter 3mm. Pictured here with a 5N load cell (Force measuring device) mounted on the testing machine through which the loading fo...