LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing machines, engineered by Messphysik Materials Testing GmbH, the Zwick Roell Group’s competence center for creep testing.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
These machines can be used to test how Durethan polyamides, Pocan polyesters and TEPEX continuous fiber-reinforced high-performance composites deform over time when exposed to constant mechanical load. The characteristic material data obtained from these tests is used in simulation tools to reliably predict the long-term behavior of corresponding components under continuous mechanical and thermal load.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
The two machines can perform not only creep tests according to ISO 899-1, but also relaxation tests and tests with user-defined load profiles comprising several load sequences, and they can do so at temperatures of up to 200 °C.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
“These tests are part of our HiAnt customer services, and we conduct them in accordance with the needs of our development partners, but also for our own projects,” explains Dr. Marcel Brandt, technical head of the Material Testing Center.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
Testing stations can be controlled individually
The two new testing machines cover a load range of up to 10 kN per sample. Each one is equipped with five test axes installed in a temperature-controlled chamber. The test axes can be controlled individually. “This way, we can perform five independent tests, such as creep and relaxation tests, right next to one another at identical temperatures, which saves space, money and time,” Brandt says. Elongation of the sample under load is measured optically (non-contact) by a high-resolution video extensometer mounted on each test axis.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
Continuous expansion of the Material Testing Center
LANXESS has steadily expanded its fully climate-controlled Material Testing Center in recent years. For example, it now is equipped with modern, servo-hydraulic Zwick testing machines for dynamic fatigue tests that help to characterize fatigue behavior, and for high-speed tensile tests to determine material data for crash simulation. The MTC further has testing machines for quasi-static tensile, flexural, shear and compression testing, also from Zwick.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
They are designed for testing the entire product range of impact-modified, unreinforced material grades for blow molding applications, highly reinforced compounds, and continuous fiber-reinforced composites for use in highly stressed structural components. “Our services are part of the HiAnt package of services and know-how, which we established to provide customers with support through the entire process of developing a plastic component,” Brandt says.
LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Center for high-tech thermoplastics in Dormagen with two sophisticated Kappa Multistation creep testing #
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