Streamlined testing, saving time and money
By testing in-house with PIP, a leading additive manufacturing OEM saves over $125k annually on testing and material costs alone, compared with tensile testing.
The PLX-Benchtop is a compact, easy to use system that enables you to extract much more data from your metal specimens than ever possible with tensile or hardness testing, delivering fast, reliable stress-strain curves from an automated indentation test.
By testing in-house with PIP, a leading additive manufacturing OEM saves over $125k annually on testing and material costs alone, compared with tensile testing.
Measure stress-strain curves and metal strength parameters in minutes, non-destructively.
Generate stress-strain results in as little as 5 minutes with minimal sample prep and streamlined testing — a fraction of what’s required by traditional tensile tests.
Test directly on real components and samples, as small as 3 x 3 x 1.5 mm, bypassing the need for costly tensile testing specimens.
Optimise testing workflows with a straightforward, automated testing process and user-friendly interface, all from a compact and portable device.
A small indent (~1 mm wide and ~100-200 µm deep ) is created on the material’s surface.
The indent is then scanned by an integrated profilometer, which captures the shape of the material deformation.
Using advanced finite element modelling, the software runs a simulation of the same indentation test, continuously adjusting the material properties in the simulation until the simulated indent matches the real one.
Once matched, the user is presented with a stress-strain curve, which provides key mechanical properties including yield strength and ultimate tensile strength (UTS).
Unlock stress-strain curves from metallographic samples or specimens too small for tensile testing.
Extract multiple stress-strain curves from a single specimen with fine-scale spatial mapping across parts or welds.
Tensile testing one ASTM E8 specimen provides one stress-strain curve. The PLX-Benchtop could extract over 160.
With the PLX-Benchtop, you get all the benefits of tensile and hardness testing in one, with none of the limitations.
1. Choose device, base metal, alloy, or processing method
2. Explore comparison data between PIP and tensile
3. Book a trial to see how PIP performs on your materials
From the bespoke software that powers the PLX-Benchtop and provides a detailed analytics bank, to our expanding range of add-on modules that unlock new testing capabilities.
The PLX-HotStage is an add-on module for our benchtop testing device that extracts metal stress-strain curves from indentation test data at temperatures of up-to 800 °C
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