Description
Vice action wire grip with renewable aluminium facing disks, which may be replaced with leather or hard rubber disks for delicate fibres. Test method is similar to that described in BS4545:1970 (mechanical testing of steel wire)
Specification
| Maximum Capacity | 2 kN | 450 lbf |
| Minimum Load Cell | 20 N | 4.5 lbf |
| Maximum Sample Diameter | 2 mm | 0.1 in |
| Eye End Diameter | 15.85 mm | 0.62 in |
| Weight Each | 0.15 Kg | 0.3 lb |
| Length Each | 80 mm | 3.1 in |
| Temperature Limits | Ambient |
Applications
Tensile testing of soft wires, cords and fibre, etc. By straining a sample, generally to break, and recording the relationship between force and extension, for the purpose of determining one or more of the following mechanical properties:
| Elongation | Maximum Force | |
| Percentage elongation | Stress | |
| Extension | Tensile Strength | |
| Percentage yield point extension | Yield Stress | |
| Percentage reduction of area | Proof Stress |