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Materials Testing Equipment

Texture testing instruments to measure and analyze the material strength of adhesives, leather, packaging, and pharmaceuticals.

Texture analysis instruments for materials testing and material strength testing for product development, manufacturing, and packaging.

Texture Technologies has been providing companies with materials testing equipment for over 20 years, addressing the many texture analysis needs of adhesives, leather, packaging, and pharmaceuticals industries with the MT-LQPlus Texture Analyzer. [inline link to Specs below]The MT-LQPlus is designed and manufactured for long-term reliability and accuracy of materials testing and leather testing applications. It will perform tests in both tension and compression for cycling, flexure, constant strain and stress relaxation. There are many built-in test procedures to meet most requirements and standards.

Operational reliability is enhanced by the inclusion of total mechanical overload protection and electronic monitoring so that the instrument can safely recover even from full-speed impact. User-controlled position limit stops are also provided. Additional pre-programmed test procedures include Texture Profile Analysis, Adhesiveness and Sine oscillation. The MT-LQPlus is extremely easy-to-use and very flexible, providing accurate and reproducible materials testing results.

Samples of the most popular materials testing analyses conducted with the MT-LQ are the following.

Lastometer Test - This is also known as the 'Ball Burst Test' and identifies the strength and distension of the grain. Our materials testing equipment exceeds the requirements of the Standard as the test is made without stopping the test to measure grain crack. It is now accepted that some material relaxation must occur when the test is stopped, therefore the grain crack load is very accurately captured. 'Material Yield' at grain crack is also accurately identified. Key information from this materials testing technique are as follows:

  • Strength and distension of the grain at grain crack
  • Measurement of Yield at grain crack
  • Strength and distension of the grain at ball burst
  • Distance between grain crack and ball burst

Adhesive Peel Test - The measurement of peel strength of adhesive joints where one or both substrates are flexible. Key information from this materials testing technique are as follows:

  • Initial peak peel force
  • Mean peel force
  • Maximum peel force
  • Minimum peel force
  • Work done
  • Automatic identification of the 10 maximum and 10 minimum peak and calculation of the average of the maximum and minimum peak forces
  • Automatic conversion of all peel forces into peel strength

Slot And Tongue Tear Test - The measurement of tear strength. Key information from this materials testing technique are as follows:

  • Maximum tear force
  • Average tear force
  • Minimum tear force
  • Work done
  • Automatic identification of the 10 maximum and 10 minimum peak forces; calculation of the average of the maximum and minimum peak forces

Tensile Test and Tensile Strength Testing - Key information from this materials testing technique are as follows:

  • Tensile strength
  • Elongation at specific load
  • Elongation at break
  • Modulus
  • Load and elongation at grain crack

Loop Test and Softness Test - The loop test as means of quantifying leather softness has been published by the BLC - The Leather Technology Centre. A loop of leather is compressed by a defined distance and then decompressed. The energy used in compressing and the energy returned by the sample during decompression is measured. Key information from this materials testing technique are as follows:

  • Compression and decompression energy
  • Peak force
  • Springiness

Bagginess - The objective of the test is to measure the residual deformation of the test sample after cyclic bi-axial strain. The material is cycled, using the Lastometer, a defined number of times to a specific force or distance and at each cycle the distance is held for a set time whilst the material relaxes At the end of the set number of cycles the material is allowed to relax after which the is residual deformation automatically measured.

MT-LQPlus Technical Specifications

Force Range

+/- 1 kg, 5kg, 30kg, 50kg, 100kg, 250kg, 500kg, and 750kg Fitting and changing load cells takes less than a few minutes.

Load accuracy

+/- 0.5% of reading down to 1% of loadcell capacity. Exceeds the requirements of BS EN ISO 7500: 1999 Class 0.5, ASTM E4, DIN 51221

Loadcells

Directly interchangeable by the user. All loadcells store their unique calibration and identification information in 'onboard' non-volatile memory

Speed Range

0.01 - 20mm/sec (up to 500kg) 0.01 - 13mm/sec (500-750kg)

Speed Accuracy

Better than 0.1%

Range Setting

0.001-524mm

Range Resolution

0.001mm

Data Channels

Filtered force at 20 bit
Distance at 24 bit
Unfiltered force at 16 bit
Two linear analogue inputs (range +/- 4.5v at 16 bit) or PT100 temperature probe inputs (range -50°C to +250°C)
Biphase digital encoder input at 24 bit suitable for any compatible linear or rotary extensometer.

Data Acquisition Rate

Up to 500 points per second (pps) for each data channel.

Filtered Force

Oversampled at 8000 samples per second and digitally filtered to 500 pps at 20 bit resolution.

External Instrumentation Channels

Four channels of RS485 using an industry standard MODBUS protocol. Each channel logs at one sample per ten seconds at 16 bit and is suitable for external sensing of temperature, humidity etc.

Filtered Force

Oversampled at 8000 samples per second and digitally filtered to 500 pps at 20 bit resolution.

Operating Temperature

O0 - 40°C

Operating Environment

Laboratory conditions. Dust and splash resistant.

Net weight

35kg

PC Interface

Interface to PC through a standard RS232 serial port at 115200 BAUD.

Power supply

Universal mains input voltage.

Firmware updates

FLASH update of firmware via PC.