Section 3.3 Impeller Design
3. ASTM D638 – Testing Protocols for Plastics and Polymers
Abstract (Abstract): ADMET Inc., a provider of integrated materials testing systems, offers tensile and flexural test routines that are specific to the plastics industry. Its MTESTWindows(TM) Materials Testing System provides test routines for ASTM D790 and ISO 178 flexural properties testing and ASTM D638 and ISO 527 tensile testing. The plastics testing routines are included at no charge in MTESTWindows. Users can select the standard tests or develop and store customized tests for specific lab situations and test requirements.
ADMET Inc. combines high quality products and services with total cost effectiveness to deliver the industry's most efficient materials testing systems. Its products range from materials testing frames to software and specialized control units. The company offers new testing systems as well as retrofits of existing machines from ATS, Baldwin, ELE/Soiltest, Forney, INSTRON, MTS, Riehle, SATEC, Shimadzu, TestMark Industries, Tinius Olsen, United and others. Highly skilled engineers provide customers with personalized research and development services and support to make ADMET the most responsive materials testing equipment supplier. ADMET's loyal customer base includes leading manufacturers, testing labs, researchers and universities in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, construction, metals, plastics, textiles and other industries. ADMET can be reached at 800-667-3220, [email protected] or by visiting http://www.admet.com.
Full text: Marc Venet ADMET Inc. 781-769-0850 X13 [email protected] or Sandy McLaughlin Soucy Communications Group 978-266-1700 [email protected]
ADMET Inc., a provider of integrated materials testing systems, offers tensile and flexural test routines that are specific to the plastics industry. Its MTESTWindows(TM) Materials Testing System provides test routines for ASTM D790 and ISO 178 flexural properties testing and ASTM D638 and ISO 527 tensile testing. The plastics testing routines are included at no charge in MTESTWindows. Users can select the standard tests or develop and store customized tests for specific lab situations and test requirements. MTESTWindows is a software program that runs on personal computers with the Microsoft Windows operating system. It includes an external interface box that controls the movement of the load frame and acquires load, strain and deflection data. MTESTWindows can be used to update existing
electromechanical and hydraulic test frames. It is also available with ADMET's full line of materials testing equipment including ADMET test frames that are designed for quality control, production and research and development applications.
"MTESTWindows is an extremely flexible system for tensile and flexural testing of virtually any material," commented Richard Gedney, ADMET founder and president. "For plastics, we've built in the test
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results. Operators simply select the D638 or D790 routines from a menu of available tests.
MTESTWindows controls the test, reports the results and performs all of the necessary calculations." MTESTWindows has one encoder input channel that measures crosshead position and uses up to three analog input channels to measure load, axial and transverse strain. It employs a high speed 32-bit microprocessor for precise closed loop control of electrohydraulic and electromechanical test frames and uses a Proportional Integral Derivative control algorithm with software selectable control modes for smooth transfer between load, position and strain control. MTESTWindows features monotonic, cyclic and segmented control profiles and offers up to 30 calibration tables per analog channel for multiple load cell and extensometer requirements with up to five calibration points per transducer.
MTESTWindows calculates key test parameters, such as ultimate tensile strength, offset yield strength, modulus of elasticity, total elongation, percent of elongation, and many more. Test reports include a stress-strain plot with all calculated test results. MTESTWindows can also generate reports, which include a statistical summary of test results. All data can be exported in ASCII delimited format for easy import into common spreadsheet and database programs.
The MTESTWindows materials testing system is available immediately directly from ADMET or through affiliated sales/service organizations. An MTESTWindows online brochure is available at:
http://www.admet.com/assets/MTESTWindowsBrochure.pdf. Price quotes are available by contacting ADMET at 800-667-3220.
About ADMET
ADMET Inc. combines high quality products and services with total cost effectiveness to deliver the industry's most efficient materials testing systems. Its products range from materials testing frames to software and specialized control units. The company offers new testing systems as well as retrofits of existing machines from ATS, Baldwin, ELE/Soiltest, Forney, INSTRON, MTS, Riehle, SATEC, Shimadzu, TestMark Industries, Tinius Olsen, United and others. Highly skilled engineers provide customers with personalized research and development services and support to make ADMET the most responsive materials testing equipment supplier. ADMET's loyal customer base includes leading manufacturers, testing labs, researchers and universities in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, construction, metals, plastics, textiles and other industries. ADMET can be reached at 800-667-3220, [email protected] or by visiting http://www.admet.com.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ASTM--American Society for Testing and Materials ISO--International Organization for Standardization
ASCII--American Standard Code for Information Interchange High resolution photo available - contact Sandy McLaughlin.
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