APPLICATIONS

THEORY, KNOWLEDGE, & MODELS

CAPABILITIES
Thermal shock (busbars)

Thermal Shock on Demonstrator

Gears


 

Single tooth Bending tests

Metal to plastic applications


Few recent examples:

  • Metal to Plastic:
    • Bike Frames, forks
    • Coffee machine handles



Compressor

High Frequency Fatigue loadings

Physical Background

Approaches for Life Time Prediction


Fatigue modeling of fiber reinforced polymers
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Validation




A classic fatigue test to access 

  • Core Labs Capabilities
Region
Equipment
Load
Temperature °C
Frequency, Hz
max
min
max
min
max
Alpharetta
Electropuls E10000
10kN
ambient 
350
1
10
Bollate
Film folding endurance tester, MIT, more details
22Kg
ambient 
200 double folds per min
Shanghai
Nil
-
-
-
-
-
Tokyo
Nil-----
Contacts: Alpharetta: Smith Colter; Bollate: Davide Sartori, Luigi Giraldi ; Shanghai: Li Hanson; Tokyo: Toshio Hatayama


  • Corporate Capabilities
Region
Equipment
Load
Temperature °C
Frequency, Hz
max
min
max
min
max
Brussels
3x Servo-hydraulic machines (DIC, Extenso)
10kN
-40
250
0.001
20
Bending tests on L samples, with different radius
Composite testing
100kN
-80
350
1
20

Contacts: Michel Houba, Dominique Delcourt


  • ADL Capabilities

Although tooth bending is not a classic fatigue test, 

Region
Equipment
Load
Temperature °C
Frequency, Hz
max
min
max
min
max
Bollate
Gear tooth bending

ambient 
1
50

Contacts: Matilde Scurria, Lorenzo Mancin


  • Potential external partners

Syensqo has engaged Leartiker to generate fatigue test data (including hysteresis measurements), to support the creation of Digimat fatigue cards across different temperatures. Other capabilities include sample molding, creep analysis, advanced...

Laboratory
Equipment
Load
Temperature °C
Frequency, Hz
max
min
max
min
max
Leartiker, Spain
Electro-mechanical
MTS Insight 100 (2D & 3D)
100kN
-40
200
1
10
Servo-hydraulic machine
MTS Bionix, +Torsion
15kN
ambient 


Metravib DMA +300, +20002kN-705000.11000
Contacts: Jose Javier jjegurrola@leartiker.com, Kepa Zulueta kzulueta@leartiker.com