Facilities

Facilties in the Laboratory for Reliability of Delft University

Software to Account for Non-linear Visco-elastic Behaviour of Plastic Products

Software has been develloped to model the non-linear visco-elastic behaviour of plastics and to carry out non-linear Finite Element Method Aanalyses.

Testing Facilties


Zwick Tensile testing system with an optical strain measuring system	MTS Impact Tensile Tester - impact speed up to 2.5 m/s.

Light Microscopes	Microtome amd UV-degradation equipment

Equipment	Specifications
Multi purpose hydraulic fatigue machine	Maximum amplitude 13 kN in tension/compression and 50 Nm in torsion. Frequency up to 50 Hz. Specimen temperature between 15 and 60 °C.
MTS - Hydraulic fatigue test equipment	Tension loading up to 100 kN. Fatigue test programme with load, strain or position control; sine, triangle, square or arbitrary waveform. Specimen temperature between 10 and +150 °C.
U.V. Degradation equipment	Xenon lamp intensity 765 W/m. Spectrum between 280 and 800 nm. Test area 180 x 250 mm2. Cyclic humidification programmes. Exposure of specimens while bent in prescribed radii.
Injection moulding machine	Klöckner FX75R, clamp force 750 kN
Compression moulding	Fontijne hydraulic device compressive force 200 kN.