The compact multi-axis testing system for a wide spectrum of specimens and test types up to 10,000 hours

The Kappa Multistation is a compact and flexible electromechanical creep testing machine with up to six individually controlled load axes.This cost and space efficient testing system is ideal for a wide spectrum of specimen materials, and is considered the specialist for creep tests on plastics and composites.The flexible testing system is ideal for changing test tasks in modern development and testing laboratories, because it can be used for applications at ambient temperature, under low and elevated temperatures as well as in humidity conditions:

• Creep tests with constant load (tensile, flexure and compression tests)
• Creep tests up to break
  - Creep rupture
  - Stress rupture
• Stress relaxation tests with constant elongation
• Force and strain controlled tests (closed loop) with force, strain and temperature sequences (stepless/in blocks)
• Tests with flexible loads, e.g. constant force increase rates
• Time-lapse testing methods, e.g. SIM, TTS, SSM
• Quasi-static tests can also be performed with this testing machine

Specific machine design

Cost and space saving design with a robust test frame:

• Three to six independently controlled load axes in one test frame
• Central lead screw drive and precision guidance via two steel columns for precise axial loading according to ASTM E292
• Load string with optimum alignment properties to ASTM E1012
• Long stroke of 200 mm per load string (more upon request)
• No mutual influence of the individual load strings at specimen break
• Precise loading rate with tolerance of ± 0.1 % of the set speed in the measurement range of 1 μm/h to nominal speed, unloaded or under constant load
• Precision testing machine to DIN EN ISO 7500-1