LANXESS expands material testing centre

LANXESS has expanded its Material Testing Centre 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. 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. 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. “

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.

LANXESS has steadily expanded its fully climate-controlled Material Testing Centre 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. They are designed for testing the entire product range of impact-modified, unreinforced material grades for blow moulding applications, highly reinforced compounds, and continuous fibre-reinforced composites for use in highly stressed structural components.