Load-deflection testing

Professionally measure your product's limits

Fall arrests, restrain systems, ladders, storage racking, balustrades and guard rails, machine guards, stairway assemblies, racking, crane attachment mechanisms, drum lifting mechanism, tine extenders

Miscellaneous

Pad locks, bike chains, extension lead hooks & carrying straps, springs, parking car-stops, vehicle ramps, playground equipment

Packaging (warehouse and transport loading)

Boxes, unit loads, IBCs, pallet boxes, crates

Furniture

Couches, chairs, tables, camping furniture, trestle tables, hanging chairs, shelving, etc.

Rope and straps

Woven rope, tie downs, canvas gym straps, lifting straps, lifting slings, climbing equipment, wire rope slings, seat belts

OUR UNIVERSAL TESTERS

Broad range of loading capabilities

Our universal testers have been designed to test a wide range of products and materials. We've achieved this with machine designs that can be adapted of suit your product, capacities for testing a wide range of materials, and they have automated functions.

25T dual-acting hydraulic universal tester (25T push, 20T pull) with 1kg resolution and 1000mm stroke
0.5T motorised universal tester with 0.01kg resolution and 1000mm stroke
Travel rate control
Customisable load applicators
Force-displacement-time measurement and logging
Cyclic fatigue tests
Large sample sizes
Dynamic compression tests
Static compression tests
Environmental preconditioning

WE CONDUCT SERVERAL TYPES OF LOADING TESTS

Load your product in different configurations

Our load-displacement machines can be configured to test your product the way that you want.

Tensile tests
Compression tests
Shear tests
Flexure (bending) tests
Floating platform
Fixed platform
Customisable load applicators

WE ANALYSE TEST DATA

Analyse your product’s behaviour

Using the load-displacement-time data collected from the test, we can manipulate the information to determine the below properties of your product.

Load at yield
Deflection at yield
Maximum load
Deflection at maximum load
Break load
Maximum deflection
Failure mode
Stiffness (Young’s modulus)
Energy at yield
Energy at maximum load
Total energy required to break
Residual deflection
Creep

Other types of loading scenarios

When we're not using a universal tester, we can still load your product the way that you'd like. This is generally achieved using steel dead weights as static loads, large pneumatic rams that can be regulated, or a crane.

General packaging

Palletised unit loads

UN dangerous goods

Fuel containers

Common test methods

ASTM D7030 - Test Method for Short Term Creep Performance of Corrugated Fibreboard Containers Under Constant Load Using a Compression Test Machine
ASTM D642 - Determining Compressive Resistance of Shipping Containers, Components, and Unit Loads
ISO 12048 - Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Compression and stacking tests using a compression tester
ISO 2234 - Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages and unit loads — Stacking tests using a static load
AS 1892.1 - Portable ladders Performance and geometric requirements
AS 4291.1 - Mechanical properties of fasteners made of carbon steel and alloy steel Bolts, screws and studs
AS 3996 - Access covers and grates
AS/NZS 4442 - Office desks, office workstations and tables intended to be used as office desks - Mechanical, dimensional and general requirements and test methods
AS/NZS 1891.4 - Industrial fall-arrest systems and devices Selection, use and maintenance
AS 2741 - Shackles
AS 2321 - Short-link chain for lifting purposes
AS 4497 – Round slings - Synthetic fibre

Poison container

Fish boxes for air transport

Paper and cardboard

Load testing

Custom product testing

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