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| Instruments for Materials Testing. Manufactures products for the materials testing industry. Specialized in development and production of instruments for specimen preparation, thermal, rheological, impact, combustion and electrical testing. Ceast provides innovative solutions for quality control and research on plastic and rubber materials for laboratories and companies worldwide. Product lines: Specimen preparation devices. Mechanical and physical testing equipment. Process testing equipment. Thermal testing equipment. Electrical testing testing equipment. Various testing equipment. Equipment for specimen preparation: Manual hollow die punch and automatic hollow die punch. Manual and motorized cutting devices. The Automatic Notchvis - A microprocessor controlled unit, designed to rapidly and automatically notch samples used for resilience impact tests. Minicutvis - The computerized milling machine apparatus to machine rigid specimens of all kinds of shapes. Razor notch. Contour cut - Copy milling machine to manually prepare samples from hard or reinforced materials complete with in-built vacuum system, and special EC safety template grips. Mechanical and physical testing equipment: RESIL 5,5 Pendulum, designed for resilience determination in IZOD, CHARPY or TENSILE IMPACT tests mode. This pendulum tester has been designed specifically for low energy tests. Able to perform tests according to ISO - ASTM - DIN - BS - AFNOR or equivalents. RESIL IMPACTOR JUNIOR - New Pendulum tester designed for a wide range of energy levels in the field of resilience determination. The specially designed shape facilitates interchangeability of hammers and vices. RESIL IMPACTOR - Latest CEAST pendulum tester, available in manual version and as a versions with pneumatic hammer braking and hammer repositioning system. DAS 2000 WIN This data Acquisition System for instrumented impact acquires up to 2000 points during an impact event using any one of the following CEAST impact testers: Resil Pendulum, Dart Tester and Falling Weight apparatus. DAS 4000 WIN This data Acquistion System is particularly suitable to perform instrumented impact tests using one of the following CEAST impact testers: Resil Pendulum, Dartester, Falling Weight apparatus and Fractovis. DAS 4000 WIN used in conjunction with instrumented strikers acquires up to 4000 points during an impact event. CRYOBOX A cold temperature test chamber to carry out Charpy and Izod tests using a Resil Impactor pendulum. The Cryobox allows conditioning not only of specimens, but also of Charpy or Izod vices. CRYOMATIC Thermal system for specimens conditioning (Charpy and Izod types) designed to be used with RESIL IMPACTOR. Mechanical system for conditioned specimens placement into vice. RESILVIS Fully automated Pendulum to carry out Izod or Charpy tests in automatic sequence complete with Resil Impactor 50 J with automatic system of hammer brake and repositioning after impact and automatic system for specimens positioning. Environmental chamber can be programmed from -70ҐC to + 100ҐC for specimen conditioning. BALL DROP To determine the energy which causes film failure under impact of a free falling dart at room temperature. Clamping specimen system according to BS 2782 and ASTM D 1709. HOBBIT - The CEAST HOBBIT, a bench top falling weight tester of the Fractovis family, was designed to investigate the behaviour of plastic film, sheeting and rigid specimens or mouldings under the impact of a striker applied perpendicular to the plane of the specimen. This bench type tester can be used not only with non-instrumented strikes for statistical control of materials impact resistance, but also with instrumented strikes and DAS 4000/DAS 2000 Date Acquistion System. DART TESTER - Suitable for falling mass impact tests on films, flat specimens, small samples, small complete components. Available with instrumented strikers connection to Data Acquistion Systems. Options: environmental chamber, anti-rebound device, velocity detector, adjustable support. FRACTOVIS - Suitable for falling mass impact tests on plate specimens, pipes and complete components. Fractovis impact system is also available in fully automatic mode. Option: environmental chamber, anti-rebound device, pivoting table, supports for Charpy or Izod impact tests. SLIP TESTER - To determine the coefficient of first slipping or friction on film or similar materials. STRAINVIS - Universal creep machine performs constant load creep tests by using tensile device, three and four-bending point, or compression device. Complete with electrical specimen deformation detector. MELT FLOW JUNIOR New Melt Flow Index with basic microprocessor control. Temperature range: 100 - 400ҐC. MELT FLOW TESTER - New compact Melt Flow Tester able to carry out automatic determination of MFR (g/10 min) and MVR (cm3/10min) according to international standards. RHEOINDEX Specially designed instrument to perform up to four determinations of Melt Flow Index, Shear Stress, Shear Rate and Viscosity in a single barrel filling, working in increasing weight mode. The main instrument features are: material compacting phase, single weight test, multiple weight test for Shear Sensitivity and rheological data, extra material purging phase at the end of the test. Standards: ASTM - ISO - DIN - BSI - NF - UNI or equivalents. Procedures A and B. MELT FLOW TESTER 130 The CEAST Melt Flow Tester 130 differs from the other models because it has motorized control for piston lifting and motion. The system, controlled by a micropocessor-based unit, automates specific test cycles in all phases. RHEOLOGIC 1000 The CEAST Rheologic 1000 is a capillary rheometer for routine analysis of the rheological behaviour of molten polymers with microprocessor data acquisition control. The "VisualRheo" software in Windows environment, will run the Rheologic 1000 in fully automatic mode, or "pilot" the system in semi-automatic mode with real-time manual intervention if and when necessary. A new procedure, Equilibrium Stress Prediction (EPS), reduces test times by over 60%; and options include nitrogen isolation for problematic materials, and multiple-sensor slit dies. RHEOLOGIC 2500 Advanced capillary rheometer for studying the rheological behaviour and melt folw of thermoplastic materials. It has a rheological processing control system and microprocessor controlled data acquisition module. Equipped with "Win Rheotester I" software in Windows environment, it allows determination of Viscosity vs. Shear Rate or Shear Stress (rheological curves). The software fully controls instrument movements during the tests. Automatic Rabinowitsch and Bagley corrections. Thermal Stability estimation. Elongational viscosity according to Cogswell. Optional Die Swell and Melt Strength measurement. Thermal testing equipment: HDT 3 JUNIOR - Instruments to determine Heat Delection Temperature or Vicat point on thermoplastic material. Temperature range up to 300ҐC. Up to 3 independent work stations with LVDT sensors and supplementary shoulders according to ISO 75/1.2. HDT 3 VICAT - New advanced universal instrument with built-in microprocessor control. Up to 3 specimens are tested simultaneously. HDT 6 VICAT - New advanced universal instrument with built-in microprocessor control. Up to six specimens are tested simultaneously. Designed according to international standards ISO R 75/1.2 and other equivalents. HDT VICAT AUTO - To automatically carry out six HDT, VICAT or CREEP determinations. A microprocessor controls the apparatus and data entry is done by a keyboard. Automatic lifting device is able to move the test system up and down in the bath. Option: ancillary mobile tool able to present HDT and VICAT samples in test position simultaneously. HDT 500 VICAT - To carry out three HDT or VICAT tests at temperatures up to 500Ґ C. Special bath is provided with programmable temperature controller, to reach high temperature test end, according to international. STRESS CRACKING - Set of tools to prepare specimens for stress cracking tests or cracking index at a determined temperature. Complete with device to measure the notch depth with a resolution of 0,01 mm. Special thermostatic controlled bath with test tube holders is available. BRITTLENESS - To determine by impact the brittlenes temperature of 5 to 10 specimens in a refrigerated bath. Also Model with automatic cooling system up to -70ҐC. HEAT-FLOW METER - Suitable for thermal conductivity determination on plastic samples having max dimension 300 x 300 mm through opposite temperatures and flux probes. CARBON BLACK - To determine the average of carbon black contained in polyolefins by the pyrolysis method (specimen is heated in controlled nitrogen flux). Programmable working temperature: up to 700ҐC. Electrical testing devices: TRACKVIS - To evaluate the low-voltage tracking resistance of materials in the presence of acqueous contaminants. Wet conditions are obtained with a peristaltic pump. Interchangeable electrodes are available. Dielectric strength meter - To determine the dielectric strength of solid insulating materials at commercial power frequencies in air or oil. Three methods of voltage application are available according to ASTM D 149, and motor-driven voltage control is optional. Range between 0 and 60 kV. Flammability tester - To determine the resistance to flame of plastic heets and films. Resistance to flame is defined as ignition time and combustion time under different conditions of exposure to flame. Adjustable support permits correct positioning of the burner. An exhaust fan extracts the combustion products and smoke. |
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