In-situ Heating & Cooling
MPM's patented In-situ Heating & Cooling System may be added to impact test machines (both pendulum and drop tower) for controlling the temperature of test specimens. The advantage of this technology is that test specimens are thermally conditioned right up to the moment of impact. Another advantage is that the test specimen can be more accurately centered prior to testing. The system replaces the practice of using external thermal baths.
MPM In-Situ Heating & Cooling - Large Capacity Machine Installation (U-Hammer)
MPM In-Situ Heating & Cooling - Tabletop Machine Installation
(C-Hammer)
MPM In-Situ Heating & Cooling - Installation for Automatic Test Machine
System Features
The features of the system are given below:
Test specimen temperatures from -190ºC to 170ºC (with the standard system)
Test specimen temperatures up to 900ºC with add-on module to standard system
The centering tool provides a factor of two improvement over the conventional approach of using tongs with a thermal bath transfer approach
The requirement for rapid transfer of the specimen from a thermal bath is eliminated
Full system includes:
supports and anvils
temperature control console with four thermocouple readouts
centering tool
calibration specimen instrumented with thermocouples
user friendly software stores calibration data and provides temperature set points
hardware/software manual