TESTING and TECNOLOGICAL LAB
Testing facilities
• 2 MTS 4 channels electrohydraulic benches for fatigue and deformation tests (load range from ± 25 to 100 kN and stroke from ± 75 to 125 mm.
• 1 MTS electrohydraulic bench for fatigue test at different temperatures on specimen (Load= ± 25 kN , Stroke= ± 75 mm)
• 1 Roell Amsler resonant machine for fatigue tests on specimens and components (load = ±175 kN).
• 1 C.E.C. plane bending resonant machine for fatigue test on crankshafts (bending moment: 30÷2,000 daNm).
• 1 Furnace for high temperature tests (100÷800 °C)
Teksid Testing Laboratory is able to perform fatigue tests on raw and machined foundry
components, mechanical and fatigue tests on specimens of various metals at different
temperatures as well as stress relief tests and others.
Tecnological lab
The Technological laboratory is equipped to perform a complete metallurgical analysis and
defect surveys. It is connected to the Turin university to execute Electronic Microscope
Scanning, Plasma AAS metals determination.
Special tests for foundry process are available such as:
•gas evolution for green and core sand,
•core hot distortion
•core strength at high temperature .
Dynamometer GALDABINI load max 200 kN for stress test
Hardness measure: Brinell from 10/3000 to 2,5/187,5 - Rockwel – Vickers
Remelting furnace to sampling from the cast
Spectro ARL 3460 for chemical analysis
Fatigue Tests on components
Product development projects and quality control of single componentStair-case tests - Single-step tests - S-N Curves
Deformation tests on components
Slow deformation
Fast deformation
Vmax= 2 m/s
load = max ±100 kN
stroke= max±125 mm
Fatigue Characterization of Alloys
On sample , for product development, quality control, data input in FEM analysisLow Cycles Fatigue – High cycles fatigue – Creep test
At room and up to 800°C
Stress Analysis
Strain gauge tests for product development or quality control, validation of modeling tools (FEM, process simulation)
sectioning method (destructive) - hole drilling rosette (semi destructive).
Metallurgical analysis equipment
Spectro ARL 3460
Remelting furnace
Hardness measurement: Micrographic and image analysis
DynamometerGALDBINI 200 KN
Special tests for foundry process gas evolution
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Analyzer of pressure or volume of thedeveloped gas during combustion .
Max temperature of execution: 1000°C.It reproduces the behavior of organicmaterial during pouring.
Especially useful to set the core making process in order to minimize the gas defect risks.
Special tests for foundry process cores hot distortion
Measurement of core deformation under thermal stress.
It supplies information about the tendency toform veins and highlights possible geometricalproblems.Can be used to investigate the contribution to deformation of sand, resins and wash, togetheror separately.
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