Unconventional testing machines development and realization
Our team has more than 20 years of experience in the field of research, development, production of testing machines, development of modern unconventional testing methods, metallographic specimen preparations, testing materials, automatization of industrial processes and environmental technologies, calibration of measuring devices and development of control software and hardware.
For our constructions we use the newest hi-tech materials, sensors, machinery parts, developer software and machining technologies.
Our strengths
Products
SCOOPER 50
Scoop sampling machine
Fully automatic, portable equipment for in-situ material extraction from structural components without affecting them, virtually without a notch. Extracted material of hemispherical shape can be used for chemical, metallographic or electron microscopic analyses, for determination of mechanical material properties (e.g. by Small Punch Test, Small Punch Creep Test, Impression Creep Test etc.)
SPC 650
Small Punch Creep Testing machine for material testing in accordance with EN 10371, up to 650 °C
Fully automatic testing machine for residual life estimation of structural components operating at elevated temperatures using the Small Punch Creep Test method in accordance with EN 10371. The test piece is protected by argon, maximum testing temperature 650 °C, load up to 1000 N with direct frictionless loading and up to 500 N with the lever version.
SPC 800
Small Punch Creep Testing machine for material testing in accordance with EN 10371, up to 800 °C
Fully automatic testing machine for residual life estimation of structural components operating at elevated temperatures using the Small Punch Creep Test method in accordance with EN 10371. The test piece is protected by argon, maximum testing temperature 800 °C, load up to 1000 N with direct frictionless loading and up to 500 N with the lever version.
SPC 1000
Small Punch Creep Testing Machine for material testing in accordance with EN 10371 with direct load system
Fully automatic testing machine for residual life estimation of structural components operating at elevated temperatures using Small Punch Creep Test method in accordance with EN 10371.
SPC 1200
High-temperature machine for creep testing of miniaturised specimens by the Small Punch Creep Test method to EN 10371, up to 1200 °C
A high-temperature testing machine for creep testing by the penetration method to EN 10371, under development for temperatures up to 1200 °C and loads up to 5000 N. It is being created in a TA CR TREND project together with the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
TTS 190
Small Punch Test system for tensile and fracture material properties determination in accordance with EN 10371
Highly sophisticated testing system for mechanical material properties determination (Rp, Rm, Em, TSP, DBTT) using the Small Punch Test method in accordance with EN 10371, at room temperature (23 ± 2 °C) and at low temperatures down to −193 °C.
PIIS 3000
Non-destructive, portable Instrumented Indentation Tester
Fully automatic, non-destructive, portable instrumented indentation testing machine designed for determining mechanical material properties (yield strength, ultimate tensile strength, strain hardening exponent, strain hardening exponent constant, Young's modulus, accumulated yield strain, Brinell hardness), fracture toughness (critical SIF for mode I KIC, II KIC), weld residual stress, of structural components operating under industrial conditions (in-situ) using instrumented indentation testing method (IIT) in accordance with B0950, B0951, ISO/TR 29381, KEPIC code MDF A370 and ASME Code case 2703.
GE 76
Tool for specimen manufacturing intended for Small Punch Test or Small Punch Creep Test method
High precise tool for manufacturing specimens (Ø8 mm, thickness 0.5±0.005 mm) in four steps according to EN 10371 “Metallic materials – Small punch test method”, intended for Small Punch Test or Small Punch Creep Test method.
PT 8
Tool for cutting out the circular shape of the sample intended for the Small Punch Test or Small Punch Creep Test
The tool is intended for cutting a circular sample (Ø 8 mm) from sheet material with a thickness of up to 0.8 mm. The sample must be further reground to the final dimension according to the requirements of the European test standard EN 10371 “Metallic materials - Small punch test method”.
Services
Scoop sampling
Do you need a specimen for your analysis and you do not have a scoop sampling machine?
No problem, our experienced team is ready to help you…
Small punch specimens manufacturing
Do you have a material and you need to manufacture small punch specimens with accuracy according to EN10371?
Just send it to us and our laboratory technicians will do it quickly, accurately and reliably.
News
Published: mechatronics design and evaluation software of a portable indentation system
A study describing the mechatronics design and the evaluation software architecture of a portable instrumented indentation test (IIT) system was published in Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics — the very principles our PIIS 3000 is built on. Daniel Omacht is a co-author. The article is available here.
Published: instrumented indentation and neural networks for determining a material constitutive model
A study combining the Instrumented Indentation Test (IIT) with neural networks to determine the constitutive model parameters of austenitic stainless steel SS304L on in-service components was published in Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (Springer). This is exactly the kind of measurement our PIIS 3000 performs under operating conditions. Daniel Omacht is a co-author; the article is open access and available here.
Published: a new instrumented spherical indentation methodology for fracture toughness determination
A study presenting a new instrumented spherical indentation test methodology for determining the fracture toughness of high strength steels was published in Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. There are two routes to this property and we cover both: non-destructively on the component in service with the PIIS 3000, or from a tiny amount of material extracted by the scoop sampling method with the SCOOPER 50. Daniel Omacht is a co-author. The article is available here.
Proposal of EN 10371 was approved
In December 2020, a proposal for the new EN 10371 standard “Metallic materials. Small punch test method” was approved and will be published as an EN standard. According to CEN (European Committee for Standardization), the final text will be ready on 11 March 2021 and publication of the final standard is foreseen on 11 June 2021. Results of voting are here.
New version of SPTcalc™ – software for Small Punch Test results evaluation
New version of the software for evaluating measured test data from Small Punch Tests was finished and tested. Results are evaluated in accordance with the proposal of European standard EN 10371 “Metallic materials. Small punch test method”.
Main features:
- Data import from files *.dat, *.csv, *.txt (specimen deflection, punch displacement, crossbeam displacement)
- Fe point determination by bilinear method
- Yield stress Re calculation based on EN 10371 annex C,D equation C.1, C.2
- Automatic Fm determination
- Ultimate tensile strength Rm calculation based on EN 10371 annex C,D equation C.1, C.2
- Calculating energy from deflection curve or displacement curve
- Possibility of editing Fm point – drag and drop method – automatic energy recalculation
- Possibility of zero shift based on strength for measured curves
- Transferring the resulting energy to a transition temperature file
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