Linear Motor-Driven Systems

The Dynamic and Fatigue Test Systems utilize advanced all-electric linear motor technology to deliver precise, high-frequency sinusoidal and complex waveform testing capabilities, offering a clean, quiet, and highly responsive solution for low-to-medium force dynamic applications. These platforms are engineered for exceptional displacement and load control accuracy across demanding fatigue, durability, and dynamic characterization tests.

The General Purpose Hydraulic Fatigue Systems are built as robust, floor-standing platforms designed to handle rigorous, high-force, and high-cycle durability testing demanded by industrial and aerospace applications, delivering forces ranging from 10 kN up to 500 kN or more. These systems are centered around hydrostatic bearing actuators and highly responsive digital servo-valves that ensure exceptional lateral stiffness.

The Low Strain Rate Servo-Electric Systems are high-stiffness, floor-standing testing platforms meticulously optimized for the precise and stable application of force and displacement at extremely low strain rates and crosshead speeds. This specialization is fundamental for advanced materials research focused on fracture mechanics, creep, and stress relaxation, where maintaining a constant, minute rate of change—often for hundreds or thousands of hours—is essential.

The High Strain Rate Systems are highly specialized, robust hydraulic testing platforms specifically engineered to characterize the mechanical response of materials under conditions of high-velocity deformation and dynamic impact, achieving crosshead speeds up to 25 m/s. These systems are critical for industries such as automotive safety, defense, and protective equipment.

The Axial-Torsion Systems are specialized, high-stiffness hydraulic testing platforms uniquely designed to apply and control two independent loading axes simultaneously: axial (tension/compression) force and rotational (torsional) torque. This capability is crucial for accurately simulating the complex multiaxial stress states found in engineering components like drive shafts, threaded fasteners, bone fixation devices, and piping systems.

The ElectroPuls Multi-Station Testing Systems represent a paradigm shift in high-throughput durability testing, configuring up to 16 independent test stations on a single, unified control platform utilizing the all-electric linear motor technology. This high-density architecture is specifically designed for accelerated life testing and quality assurance where thousands of specimens or components.

The Biaxial Cruciform Test Systems are highly specialized multi-axis load frames engineered to apply simultaneous, independent, and precise tensile or compressive loading along two orthogonal axes (typically the X and Y plane) to a single cruciform specimen. This advanced testing capability is essential for accurately mapping the yield surface and characterizing the anisotropic behavior of sheet metals, composites, and thin films under the complex.

High Temperature Fatigue Systems are highly integrated testing solutions that combine a robust, precise hydraulic or electro-mechanical fatigue frame with specialized high-temperature furnaces (up to 1,000C or greater) and non-contact extensometry. This integration is non-trivial and is essential for accurately characterizing the complex creep-fatigue interaction, thermal-mechanical fatigue, and long-term durability of materials—such as superalloys and ceramics.