Low Energy Impact Systems

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.

• Complies with the latest requirements of ISO and ASTM
• Innovative strain gage design for extremely accurate response measurement with no correction factor
• A maximum of 1,000,000 data acquisition points for accurate determination of the characteristic load, deflection, and energy data.
• Data acquisition time ranges from microseconds up to several seconds (longer acquisition times available)
• Optical encoder data can be read and stored automatically
• Windows 2000 based Impact™ software for easy test set-up, data acquisition, report generation, and post-processing of data.