Instrumented Impact Test System for Pendulum-Type Instruments 

Highly accurate and easy to use way to determine actual energy needed to initiate fracture of plastic and metallic material. Tinius Olsen's Instrumented Charpy Impact System innovative design features a high-speed system response that can accurately capture high-speed events such as the inertial rise during initial impact and brittle fracture. There are no electronic filters, which distort the actual load-time relationship. There is no need to enter large correction factors (measured force multipliers) to bring the integrated energy into agreement with the total absorbed energy as measured by the digital indicating system. Overall operational safety and testing efficiency is greatly increased by the elimination of optical triggers.