Instruments and equipment that evaluate mechanical, thermal or other material properties, or simulate field conditions.
Product and Material Testing Categories
Anechoic Chambers
Anechoic chambers are specialized chambers designed for electromagnetic or sound waves.
Asphalt Testing Equipment
Asphalt test equipment includes specialized testers, instruments and devices for evaluating the properties of asphalt or other types of pavement materials.
Calorimeters and Thermal Analyzers
Calorimeters and thermal analyzers contain a heat source that can deliver a heat flux, at a distinct temperature, into a sample, and a temperature-measuring device that can read the resultant change in temperature.
Deflectometers and Extensometers
Deflectometers and extensometers are used to indicate the deformation of material while it is subjected to stress.
Density and Specific Gravity Instruments
Density and specific gravity instruments are meters used to determine density and specific gravity.
Densometers and Porosimeters
Densometers and porosimeters are used for measuring porosity, air permeability or air resistance of sheet-like or bulk materials.
Diffractometers
Diffractometers are used to measure crystal structure, grain size, texture, and/or residual stress of materials and compounds through the interaction of X-ray beams, gamma rays, electron beams, or neutron beams with a sample.
Durometers
Durometers are instruments used for measuring the indentation hardness of rubber, elastomers, plastics and foam materials.
Environmental Test Chambers and Rooms
Environmental test chambers and rooms are used to ensure the reliability of industrial products, especially electronic items, through prolonged exposure to one or more environmental parameters.
Fuel Testers
Fuel testers analyze the properties and composition of biofuels, gasoline, diesel, and petroleum-based fuels and fuel feedstocks.
Gas and Liquid Samplers
Gas samplers and liquid samplers extract specimens of media from process streams, reactors or storage vessels.
Geophysical Instruments
Geophysical instruments are used for geological study, including rock and soil mechanics, core analysis and surveys of the earth.
Hardness Testers
Hardness testers measure a material's resistance to indentation. This calculation is determined by measuring the permanent depth or projected area of the indentation.
Hydrometers
Hydrometers are calibrated glass floats used to determine the specific gravity of a liquid.
Imaging Workstations
Imaging workstations are vision systems used for metrology or image analysis in laboratory and cleanroom settings.
Mechanical Testing Equipment
Mechanical testing equipment covers devices used for adhesion, compression, drop (shock), tensile, vibration and fatigue testing.
Microscopes
Microscopes are instruments that produce magnified images of small objects
Particle Analyzers
Particle analyzers are used to determine the physical makeup of individual particulates in aerosols, dispersion, emulsions, powders, and other samples.
Permeation Instruments
Permeation instruments are designed to measure the permeability, solubility, diffusivity and precise transmission rate of organic vapors or liquids through films, paper, pulp, packages and other materials.
Plant Growth Chambers
Plant Growth Chambers are specifically designed to produce environmental conditions to maximize plant growth.
Polymer Testing Equipment
Polymer test equipment includes melt flow indexers, extrusiometers, and other specialized instruments for determining the processability and properties of plastics and elastomer materials.
Powder Testing Equipment
Powder testing equipment is used to measure the static and dynamic properties of powders for pharmaceutical, coating, and other solid-particulate applications.
Product and Material Test Fixtures and Accessories
Material test fixtures and accessories include mechanical testing grips, fixtures, sample heaters, extensometers, specimen cutters, and other specialized test components.
Property Testing Equipment
Property testers are used to determine various physical properties of samples, including cloud point, distillation, flash point, freezing point, melting point, pour point, and vapor pressure.
Pulp and Paper Testing Equipment
Pulp and paper testers include specialized sensors, instruments, COBB testers, and test equipment for evaluating the material properties and processability characteristics of pulp and paper.
Pycnometers
Pycnometers are glass or metal containers with a determined volume. They are typically used to determine the density of liquids and their dispersions
Refractometers
Refractometers measure the critical angle of refraction through a sample. The critical angle of refraction will change with concentration.
Rheometers
Rheometers characterize a liquid according to its viscous properties and elastic responses.
Solids Flow Meters
Solids flow meters measure the flow rate of bulk solids, powders, grain, etc.
Stability Chambers and Rooms
Stability chambers and stability rooms are temperature-controlled and humidity-controlled environmental units that provide stable conditions for storage and testing purposes.
Strain Gauges
Strain gauges are measuring elements that convert force, pressure, tension, etc., into an electrical signal.
Surface Area and Pore Size Analyzers
Surface area and pore size analyzers are used to measure the surface area and pore size of a sample.
Tensiometers and Surface Tension Meters
Surface tension and wettability instruments measure fluid surface tension, a tangential force that keeps a fluid together at the air/fluid interface. Surface tension is a direct indicator of the quality of any chemical and any formulation.
Test Sieves
Test sieves are stainless steel or brass round frames with extremely accurate openings. Wire cloth is usually of stainless steel or brass with nonstandard wire diameters.
Texture Analyzers
Texture analyzers evaluate the cohesiveness, spreadibility, fracturability, tackiness, gumminess, firmness, pliability, consistency and other texture characteristics of foods, rubber, foams, coatings, grease, asphalt and other materials.
Thermal Platforms and Thermal Plates
Thermal Platforms provide heating and cooling with more precise temperature control for environmental or climatic testing.
Viscometers
Viscometers define viscous properties of a fluid at ambient or defined temperatures.
