Kappa creep testing machines

Versatile high-precision creep testing machines for maximum cost-effectiveness.

• Test frame with four steel columns for high lateral and axial stiffness.
• Top-quality components include testXpert® II testing software and testControl measurement and control electronics.
• The success of testXpert® II is based on more than 80 years’ materials testing experience and over 10,000 successful testXpert® installations worldwide.
• testControl features intelligent sensor technology which recognizes & calibrates all connected sensors, including their defined force limits.
• The Kappa range focuses on the key requirements of creep testing: load, temperature, strain and data security.

Applications:

• long-term creep tests, stress rupture tests (primarily with Kappa LA)
• creep tests and extended creep tests, stress relaxation tests
• tensile, compression and flexure tests on all types of materials

Standards

Metals

• uniaxial creep test under tensile load, ISO 204:2009,
  EN 10291:2000, ASTM E139-06
• stress relaxation test under tensile load, EN 10319 ASTM,
  ASTM E328-02 creep crack test, ASTM E1457-07
• hydrogen embrittlement, ASTM F519
• time for rupture notch tension test, ASTM E292-01

Plastics

• Determination of creep behavior (tensile): EN ISO 899-1 and
  (compression): EN ISO 899-2
• full notch creep test ISO 16770

Textiles

• creep tests with geotextiles to ASTM D6992-03 and ASTM D5262-07

Ceramics

• customized applications

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