An example material testing machine includes: a first crosshead; a first drive shaft configured to move the first crosshead when actuated; a housing comprising an air inlet and an air outlet; a drive motor within the housing and configured to actuate the first drive shaft; a motor drive circuit configured to provide electrical power to the drive motor; and a motor drive cooling system configured to cool the motor drive circuit, the motor drive cooling system comprising: a cooling fan configured to generate an airflow from the air inlet of the housing to the air outlet of the housing, wherein a total surface area of the air outlet is greater than a total surface area of the air inlet such that an air pressure of the airflow decreases from the air inlet towards the air outlet; a duct configured to direct a path of the airflow between the air inlet and the air outlet; and a heat sink thermally coupled to the motor drive circuit and positioned within the airflow in the duct.

A material analysis device for analysing a material sample. The material analysis device is equipped with a—generally temperature-controllable—sample chamber and a sample holder, which, supported by at least one pillar, protrudes into the sample chamber, and a loading shaft, to one end of which force is applied by an exciter, and the other end of which bears a connecting member, with which it transmits force to the sample in a defined manner and loads same thereby.

A pin-on-plate friction and wear test device includes a high temperature heating chamber and a cooling pin. The high temperature heating chamber is fastened horizontally to the mobile base. The axis of the cooling pin is perpendicular to the upper surface of the mobile base. The electric resistance heating plate is located in the bottom closed space under the friction sample plate in the high temperature heating chamber. The electric resistance heats the fixed sample to experiment temperature. The inner layout of pin is a circling cooling channel where the cooling medium adjusts and cools the temperature of the sample. Thermocouples are separately distributed in the temperature measuring groove of the high temperature heating chamber and the temperature measuring hole of the cooling pin for real-time temperature measurement. The device can simulate the friction and wear properties of the high-strength steel plate and hot-stamping die in the differential temperature environment.

An instrument and method for mechanical properties in situ testing of materials under a high temperature and complex mechanical loads are provided. The instrument includes: a support frame module used to provide a stable support and an effective vibration isolation for each functional module of the instrument; a high-frequency fatigue load applying module used to apply a high-frequency fatigue load on a tested sample; a static-dynamic mechanical load applying module used to apply a combination of static-dynamic tension/compression/bending loads on the tested sample; a high/low temperature applying module used to apply a variable temperature environment from a low temperature to a high temperature on the tested sample; and an in-situ monitoring module that may integrate a surface deformation damage measurement assembly, a three-dimensional strain measurement assembly, a microstructure measurement assembly, and an internal damage detection assembly according to a practical testing requirement.

An instrument and method for mechanical properties in situ testing of materials under a high temperature and complex mechanical loads are provided. The instrument includes: a support frame module used to provide a stable support and an effective vibration isolation for each functional module of the instrument; a high-frequency fatigue load applying module used to apply a high-frequency fatigue load on a tested sample; a static-dynamic mechanical load applying module used to apply a combination of static-dynamic tension/compression/bending loads on the tested sample; a high/low temperature applying module used to apply a variable temperature environment from a low temperature to a high temperature on the tested sample; and an in-situ monitoring module that may integrate a surface deformation damage measurement assembly, a three-dimensional strain measurement assembly, a microstructure measurement assembly, and an internal damage detection assembly according to a practical testing requirement.

The present disclosure relates to a traceable in-situ micro- and nano-indentation testing instrument and method under variable temperature conditions. A macro-micro switchable mechanical loading module, a nano mechanical loading module and an indentation position optical positioning module are fixed on a gantry beam, an optical imaging axis of an optical microscopic in-situ observation or alignment module and a loading axis of the nano mechanical loading module are coplanar, the optical microscopic in-situ observation or alignment module and the function switchable module are mounted on a table top of a marble pedestal, and a contact or ambient mixed variable temperature module is fixedly mounted on the function switchable module. A modular design is adopted, the micro- and nano-indentation testing instrument is used as a core, in combination with a multi-stage vacuum or ambient chamber, an indentation depth traceability calibration module and multiple sets of optical microscopic imaging assemblies.

A pin-on-plate friction and wear test device includes a high temperature heating chamber and a cooling pin. The high temperature heating chamber is fastened horizontally to the mobile base. The axis of the cooling pin is perpendicular to the upper surface of the mobile base. The electric resistance heating plate is located in the bottom closed space under the friction sample plate in the high temperature heating chamber. The electric resistance heats the fixed sample to experiment temperature. The inner layout of pin is a circling cooling channel where the cooling medium adjusts and cools the temperature of the sample. Thermocouples are separately distributed in the temperature measuring groove of the high temperature heating chamber and the temperature measuring hole of the cooling pin for real-time temperature measurement. The device can simulate the friction and wear properties of the high-strength steel plate and hot-stamping die in the differential temperature environment.

A specimen heating apparatus includes a heater unit configured to heat a test specimen held in a material testing machine, a heater holding unit configured to hold the heater unit in a set position relative to the test specimen for heating, a specimen temperature measurement unit attached to the heater unit and configured to measure temperature of the test specimen when the heater unit is in the set position, a temperature controller configured to control heating of the heater unit in response to a temperature measured by the specimen temperature measurement unit, and a thermal insulation unit configured to cover the heater unit, wherein the heater holding unit holds the heater unit in such a way that the heater unit is allowed to be brought to and removed from the set position while the test specimen is being held in the material testing machine.

The present invention relates to a tri-axial mechanical test apparatus and method for simulating the process of freezing the high-pressure water into ice. The tri-axial mechanical test apparatus comprises a main body loading system, a freezing system, and a sample test system; in the main body loading system, a flange, an axial pressure piston and a pressure-bearing shell are constituted to a loading main body, and the axial pressure and confining pressure are controlled directly by a tri-axial servo tester and indirectly by an oil-water separator respectively; in the freezing system, a circumferential freezing liquid circulation channel and a base freezing liquid circulation channel are connected to an external cold source for cooling and freezing, and a dissoluble shell is provided on the periphery of the sample to ensure the shape of ice; in the sample test system, a serial of optical fiber sensors in the sample is connected to an optical fiber data collector, to measure temperature and strain. The present invention cooperates with a tri-axial servo tester, an oil-water separator, an external cold source and an optical fiber data collector, so that the water can be frozen into ice under pressure under the confinement of a dissoluble shell that is dissolved after an ice sample is formed, and then the tri-axial mechanical test can be carried out directly in the original stress state after water is frozen into ice under pressure.

The present disclosure relates to a traceable in-situ micro- and nano-indentation testing instrument and method under variable temperature conditions. A macro-micro switchable mechanical loading module, a nano mechanical loading module and an indentation position optical positioning module are fixed on a gantry beam, an optical imaging axis of an optical microscopic in-situ observation or alignment module and a loading axis of the nano mechanical loading module are coplanar, the optical microscopic in-situ observation or alignment module and the function switchable module are mounted on a table top of a marble pedestal, and a contact or ambient mixed variable temperature module is fixedly mounted on the function switchable module. A modular design is adopted, the micro- and nano-indentation testing instrument is used as a core, in combination with a multi-stage vacuum or ambient chamber, an indentation depth traceability calibration module and multiple sets of optical microscopic imaging assemblies.