Areas in labs / dedicated equipments and facilities
- 4 Hopkinson Bars for the dynamic characterization of materials when submitted to high values of the strain-rate
- tensile, compression, bending and fracture mechanic tests. The equipment can be combined with systems of induction heating for tests at elevated temperatures (up to 1000 ° C)
- tests on cylindrical and flat (metal sheets, laminates) specimens
- Equipment for the mechanical characterization of structural foams
- Characterization tests with monoaxial, hydrostatic and mixed loading
- Characterization tests both in quasi-static and dynamic loading
- Specific test machines for mechanical characterization of materials and joints at intermediate speed of load application
- Tensile dynamic characterization tests (FastTens)
- Compressive dynamic characterization tests (Compulse)
- Instrumented Charpy Pendulum both for standard and tensile tests
- CEAST FractovisDrop-dart testing machine for impact tests with climatic chamber for tests at temperature in the range from -40° to + 80°C
- Energy range 06-1000 J, impacting mass 2 – 70 kg, max impact velocity 24 m/s
- Specific fixtures according to the ASTM standard
- Specific fixtures to make impact tests on small components
- Material testing machines.
- Dartec AH100 testing machines with hydraulic actuation, 100 kN of maximum load
- Zwich Z100 testing machines with mechanical actuation, 100 kN of maximum load
- Fixtures and owen for tests at high temperature
- Fixtures for four-point beding tests
- Fixtures for plate bending, corresponding to the drop-dart test standard
- Fixture for joint tests with different direction of the load application
- Equipments for the acquisition, conditioning, elaboration and analysis of the test data.
- Acquisition board, elaboration and data analysis systems
- Accelerometers and load cells
- Camera with high frame rate (up to 1 million fps)
- Equipment for the impact test of the pedestrian head against the vehicle bonnet according to the EuroNCAP standard
- Modular equipment for positioning and launching of the specific head-form
- Particularly designed Head-form able to measure both linear (3D) and rotational head accelerations