MECHANICAL PROPERTY TESTING – TINIUS OLSEN 5ST

Quinten Thijssen, Georgios Misiakos

31-05-2022

DEPARTMENT OF ORGANIC AND MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

CENTER OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

POLYMER CHEMISTRY AND BIOMATERIALS GROUP

MECHANICAL TESTING PRINCIPLES - TENSILE

• Tensile testing: a fundamental materials science and engineering test in which a sample is subjected to a controlled tension until failure. The goal of tensile testing is to find out how strong a material is and how much it can be stretched before it breaks by measuring fundamental variables, such as, strain, stress, and deformation.
• Properties that are directly measured via a tensile test are:
• Stress-strain curve
• Ultimate tensile strength
• Breaking strength
• Maximum elongation
• Young's modulus
• Poisson's ratio
• Yield strength�

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Secondary properties calculated

based on the fundamental properties

MECHANICAL TESTING PRINCIPLES - COMPRESSION

• A compression test is a mechanical test in which a material or product responds to forces that compress, squash, and crush the test specimen to characterize its strength and stiffness under applied crushing loads. The goal of compression testing is to determine the behavior or response of a material while it experiences a compressive load by measuring fundamental variables, such as, strain, stress, and deformation.
• Stress-strain curve
• Compressive strength
• Deformation
• Elastic limit
• Yield point
• Yield strength
• Ultimate strength
• Modulus of elasticity�

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Secondary properties calculated

based on fundamental properties

TINIUS OLSEN 5ST

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Available attachments:

Compression

plates

Pneumatic tensile grips