It is a universal testing machine capable of carrying out tensile, compression, bending, and shearing fesfs. Operation is manual, semiautomatic, and automatic. The test instrument can be modularised taking into account that the structure can house 3 permanently installed load cells for compression tests, and 3 sets of tensile grips for tests, including at break. Our system uses several cards (for axis and cell reader control) that are connected via CanBus to enable displacements to position or force at a feedback speed of 1000 Hz. Load cell reads are effected ì,000 times per second. Minimum indexing is 1/32,700 (this can be increased by slowing down load cell reading).
