Polymers
Today, polymers are used in a wide range of industrial applications: resins, composites, adhesives, coatings, surface treatment…
As a result, researchers and industrialists have to be able to control polymer behavior in a wide range of conditions (temperature, hygrometry, etc), in order to measure their viscoelastic properties (stiffness, Young’s modulus, shear modulus, viscosity, damping).
Metravib DMA Instruments are particularly well suited to the characterization of polymer behavior (monitoring polymerization, glass and sub-glass transition temperatures), creep, fatigue…
Composites
Used for high-performance solutions, especially concerning reductions in energy consumption, composite materials are often exposed to severe operating conditions (shocks, vibrations, temperatures).
Therefore, researchers and manufacturers must have full knowledge of their mechanical performances and endurance.
Metravib DMA instruments offer mechanical analysis possibilities incorporating a large number of parameters: stress, deformation, excitation frequency, deformation modes of bending, tensile, compression and shearing, as well as temperature, hygrometry and even special gaseous atmospheres.
Their capacity to adapt to the type of material (solid, paste, liquid) or to the specimen’s geometry (sheet, resin, film, fibre…) makes them perfectly suitable for characterising, developing and optimising composite materials.
