STANDARD SUPPLY :
- The Automatic Flexural Testing Machine consists of:
- Heavy Duty Welded Wide Clearance Load Frame
- Automatic Hydraulic Power Pack
- Digital Data Acquisition & Control System
- Software and Ethernet Cable
- Flexural test assemblies are supplied separately.
FLEXURAL LOAD FRAME :
- The multipurpose flexural testing frame is designed for minimum deflection at maximum load, ensuring high accuracy.
Construction & Design :
- Heavy-duty welded steel fabrication
- Single-acting up-stroking ram
- Over-travel switch protection
- Load cell-based load measurement
- Adjustable column spacing up to 1 meter
- Stable base-mounted ram structure
- Wide clearance frames are designed to accept all required flexural and compression accessories.
- The load frame ensures stability for accurate and repeatable test results over long-term operation.
Frames can:
- Be connected to a compression machine as a secondary frame
- Operate independently with a hydraulic power pack
Main Characteristics
- High stability welded structure
- High accuracy load measurement
- Wide accessory compatibility
- Flexible integration with compression systems
FLEXURAL TESTING ACCESSORIES :
Concrete Beam Flexural Assembly (3-Point / 4-Point) :
- For 100 mm and 150 mm beams
- 2 upper and 2 lower rollers °38 ° 160 mm
- Lower bearer spacing: 100 – 800 mm
- Upper bearer spacing: 100 mm or 150 mm
- Convertible to 3-point configuration
Concrete Kerb Flexural Assembly :
- 2 lower rollers °20 ° 620 mm
- °40 mm upper loading piston with ball seating
- Adjustable lower roller spacing: 100 – 800 mm
Paving Flags, Terrazzo Tiles & Natural Stone Assembly :
- 2 lower rollers + 1 upper roller °20 ° 620 mm
- Adjustable spacing: 100 – 800 mm
Splitting Tensile Test Devices :
For Block Pavers
- 60–100 mm height ° 220 mm length specimens
For Concrete Cubes
- 150 mm cube specimens
- Distance piece for 100 mm cubes
For Cylinders
- °150°300 mm and °160°320 mm
- Distance piece for °100°200 mm cylinders
HYDRAULIC POWER PACK :
- Automatic hydraulic power pack supplies required oil to the load frame.
- Performance
- Loading rate: 1 – 20 kN/sec
- Accuracy: °5%
- Maximum working pressure: 400 bar
- Silent operation
- Equipped with 4 wheels
- Single Stage Pump
- High-pressure radial piston pump for test execution
Motor :
- AC motor
- Inverter-controlled speed for oil flow adjustment
Distribution Block :
- Controls oil flow direction and includes:
- Solenoid valve
- Maximum pressure safety valve
- Load cell connection
- High-pressure radial piston pump
- High Precision Pressure Transducer (Optional)
- Upgradeable to Class 1 calibration starting from 1% of full range.
Suitable for:
- Early age (2–3 day) compression strength tests
- Flexural and splitting tests
- Mortar compression tests
- Core testing
- Load Measurement Options
- Load cell (standard)
- Pressure transducer (optional, selectable at order stage)
OIL TANK :
- Capacity: 25 liters
- Oil level and temperature indicator
- Hydraulic motor oil No. 46 required
DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITION & CONTROL SYSTEM :
- Designed to control compressive, flexural and splitting tensile tests by processing data from load cells, pressure transducers or displacement sensors.
- Interface
TFT-LCD color touchscreen display :
- Function keys
- Menu-driven interface
- Simultaneous display of machine status, test values, warnings and real-time graphs
- Real-Time Graphical Display
- Load vs Time
- Stress vs Time
- Load vs Displacement
Main Features :
- 2 analog channels for sensors
- Control of 2 frames
- Closed-loop PID load control
- Optional integrated thermal printer
- Real-time numeric and graphical display
- Up to 8-point calibration support
- Adjustable digital gains per channel
- Customizable load, position limits and termination conditions
- Backup and recall of device settings
- Factory reset option
- Storage capacity up to 10,000 test results
- Or 80 hours real-time data recording (1 sample/sec, variable interval)
- Configurable graph axes (fixed or auto scale)
- Unit system selection:
- kN – MPa – mm
- lbf – psi – in
- kgf – kgf/cm° – cm
- Adjustable real-time clock and date
- Multi-language support (English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Russian)
- LAN connection for instant PC data transfer
- USB data export to flash drive
- Password protection for settings and calibration
- Export of results in TXT and Excel formats
- Customizable IP
- Hardware Specifications
- 2 fully customizable analog channels
- 24-bit ADC with PGA-FPGA circuit
- 800 ° 480 resolution TFT-LCD touchscreen
- 33 Hz control loop
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor for data acquisition
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor for display
- Additional memory up to 32 GB via USB
- Optional integrated thermal printer
- LAN and USB connectivity
SOFTWARE :
The PC software is designed for:
- Data acquisition
- Test control
- Processing and reporting
- Database management
- The machine can be fully controlled from a computer (Start/Stop commands).
Software Capabilities :
- Entry of test type, sample type and report details
- Customer and sample information management
- Real-time graph display (Load vs Time / Stress vs Time)
- Printable reports
- Database navigation and saved data retrieval
- Tests Supported
- Compressive strength of concrete cylinders/cubes
- Flexural strength of concrete beams
- Compressive and flexural strength of cement mortars
- Splitting tensile strength of paving blocks
- Splitting tensile strength of cylinders/cubes
- Flexural strength of roofing tiles
- Flexural strength of concrete kerbs
- Compressive strength of masonry units
- Main Software Features
- Multi-language support
- 30 test results storage per file
- Advanced graphical interface
- Export of results and graphs
- Save and recall frequently used texts
- Modification of machine parameters
- Flexible report formats
- Help and user manual display
MAIN DEVICE FEATURES :
- Pace rate control: 1 – 20 kN/sec
- Automatic closed-loop testing
- Control via touchscreen or PC software
- Load measurement via load cell
- Multi-point calibration
- Optional integrated thermal printer
- Ethernet connectivity
- Free PC software
SAFETY FEATURES :
- Maximum pressure safety valve
- Piston travel limit switch
- Emergency stop protection
