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Tinius Olsen - Testing in Education
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Tuesday, 04 June 2013 18:55 |
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A new release from Tinius Olsen makes Horizon software not only fully compliant with Windows 8, but also touchscreen enabled. This new release is free of charge to all exisiting Horizon customers, so please contact your local sales agent for update details.
Horizon software is perhaps the most powerful materials testing software  available today with key features that include a comprehensive test method library, and the ability to create your own test method; multiple machine control so that, as an example, a tensile tester with extensometers, impact tester and a couple of melt indexers are all controlled, data collected and analyzed from one familiar interface; tabbed test and recall area, which allows operators or managers to examine results from previous tests while performing live tests; multiple graph types can be used for each test; result and output editors allow reports to be generated according to your needs and style, they also allow results from multiple sources to condensed into one single report. |
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013 08:58 |
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Top Indian universities are demonstrating their confidence with Tinius Olsen machines. These universities are mostly interested in our machines that test the physical properties of different materials, including plastics, metals, textiles and more, and are ideal for students learning about different materials’ properties. These benchtop machines, which have the capability to test for strength in tension, compression, flexure, shear, burst, peel, tear etc., are available in a variety of capacities from 1kN to 75kN, with variety of frame options.
Key features of these benchtop testers that make them so attractive to students include:
- High Precision and Accuracy
- Intelligent Control
- Extremely Simple to Use
- Huge Assortment of Grips and Accessories
- Extended Test Frame and High Speed options
- Wide Frame options for Oversized Specimens
In addition to these equipment features, Tinius Olsen are their representatives are gaining popularity, as told to us by our customers, for their prompt response, excellent service, superior quality, and speedy delivery.
For more information, you can always get in touch with us, click here. |
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Friday, 12 April 2013 10:52 |
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 Ropes tend to have an explosive nature on failure and with sudden, violent breaks and it’s this explosive tendency that makes the strength testing of ropes very challenging. Any measurement system that directly contacts the rope must be robust enough to withstand these violent failures; typically this means the measurement system is heavy and/or bulky and could be a potential dangerous projectile when rope specimens undergo a violent break. For these kinds of tests, Tinius Olsen recommends the use of a non-contact video extensometer for the measurement of strain.
 The Tinius Olsen video extensometer is ideal for testing ropes on horizontal or vertical  testing tensile testing machines since it employs a non-contacting technology and can be suitably placed away from the rope, or behind a clear plastic screen, to prevent damage to the extensometer however violent the rope break event. In addition, since the extensometer doesn’t touch the specimen, no localised stress points, that could induce a premature break, exist. The captured and stored video image of the test contains the full high resolution strain data and can be replayed to support further analysis, and can also be retained as the “permanent” test record. The Tinius Olsen video extensometer conforms to the international standards BS EN ISO 2307 and is compatible with both Tinius Olsen, and non-Tinius Olsen testing machines.
To know more about our video extensometer, please click here. |
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Monday, 18 February 2013 04:57 |
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T-slotted tables are extremely useful when they’re used with materials testing machines  because they provide an easy way to insert and clamp non-standard or large test samples.
T-slotted tables themselves can come in all shapes and sizes – the one on the right here was designed to fit one of our 10,000lbf twin column bench-top testers (which itself is mounted on a frame) and is used by a conduit manufacturer to perform flexural tests on their products. The T-slots allow easy location of the flexural jig supports (which are anchored in the slots) so switching between different products is simple and quick.
With all T slotted tables, the loading point MUST still be in the center of the specimen and in the same plane as the loadcell – any off-centered loading can give erroneous results and can also damage loadcells.  This is true for all machines except Tinius Olsen’s Electomatic series of testing machines whose unique design, and key feature, allows and compensates for any off centered loading.
Tinius Olsen is able to make and supply all sizes of T-slotted tables across its range of S series, T series, U series, Super L series and Electomatic series of tension and compression testing machines, to meet user’s needs in testing large or unusually shaped specimens.
To know more about customizations or getting one done on your testing machine, please contact us, here |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:03 |
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CPAC Roof Tile Company, a sister Concern of Siam Cement Group of Thailand, is one of the leading manufacturers of roof tiles in Thailand. This company has put up its faith in Tinius Olsen Machine for testing the quality of the product being manufactured by them. For testing 300x400mm to 400x400mm tiles, CPAC is using Tinius Olsen’s H50KT-W machine while implementing Quality Control. H50KT-W has a wider frame which provides larger test area for larger samples. More than 50 to 100 samples testing per day is made easy by the use of Tinius Olsen Machine. The attachment used in the machine helps by holding the sample firmly before starting the test. Our distributor Calserve along with the customer has designed the attachment to follow the standard TIS 535.
 
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Monday, 11 February 2013 08:43 |
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We're constantly asked about customizing our Super L test frames to accommodate different shapes and sizes of specimen, and indeed we have standard options available for the lengths of pulling screws and columns, but recently we had our first request, in 133 years, for a non-magnetic loadframe.
 A division of the Russian Academy of Science is performing a series of experiments to study the relationship between stress loading and magnetic fields, so having a loading frame, with a 60,000 lbf (300kN) capacity, made from steel was obviously going to have a detrimental effect on any magnetic measurements. Working closely with the customer, we developed a stiff loading frame that uses aluminum crossheads and were able to achieve the goal of no magnetic "interference" from the test frame during the course of their tests.
On the left here you can see the machine in question with the aluminum crosshead; the same machine can be seen in the front in the photo on the right here, as a further example of the kinds of customization available, the machine next to it (all waiting to go into our paintshop) is also a 60,000lbf capacity Super L but has an adjustable height top crosshead on columns that are an extra three feet in length, with strategically placed locations for the top crosshead to be anchored.
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