Institute of Physics of Materials AS CR, v. v. i. > Laboratories > Laboratories of fracture properties of materials
Screw driven testing machine ZWICK Z50
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A universal testing system predominately used for quasi-static tensile, compressive, bending experiments of polymers, metals, ceramic and their composites at wide range of temperatures.
Universal test system INSTRON 8862 with electromechanical actuator
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A universal testing system predominately used for bending and compressive experiments of ceramic and ceramic composites at room temperatures.
High temperature impulse excitation technique IMCE HT1600
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
The system allows obtaining temperature dependence of the elastic properties of the material by non-destructive impulse excitation method.
High temperature test system
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A test system is designed for testing at temperatures up to 1600°C. Tests of metals, ceramics and composites can be performed in vacuum or under a protective argon atmosphere.
Instrumented impact tester Zwick/Roell B5113.303 (50 J)
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load measurement, different instrumented and non-instrumented pendulums from 0.5J up to 50J, dynamic tensile test adaptor. The fracture process can be monitored by high speed camera Olympus i-SPEED 3 with extreme low light sensitivity and up to 150,000 fps recoding.
Micro-testing machine MTS Tytron 250
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load cell up to ± 250 N, loading speed up to 0.5 m/s. Fixtures for tensile and three or four point bend test.
Screw driven testing machine ZWICK Z2.5 equipped with micro hardness head ZHU0.2 with optics
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load cell of testing machine up to 2.5 kN. Micro hardness head equipped with instrumented Vickers, Knoop and universal micro-hardness test with load up to 200 N and position resolution 20 nm.
ESPI System Q-300 Dantec Dynamics
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
An Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) for high sensitive displacement and strain analysis.
Analytical balances DENVER Summit
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
The analytical balances Denver Summit are precious tool for weighting of small samples with the precision of 0.1 mg. The available density kit broadens their application to the density measurement.
Acoustic emission kit Dakel IPL
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
for 4 channels continuous recording of AE signal with measuring and analysing software.
Grindosonic aparature
Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Instrument for the non-destructive measurement of the elastic properties of materials.
Laboratories of fracture properties of materials
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Determination of basic and fracture-mechanics properties of materials. |

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A universal testing system predominately used for quasi-static tensile, compressive, bending experiments of polymers, metals, ceramic and their composites at wide range of temperatures.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A universal testing system predominately used for bending and compressive experiments of ceramic and ceramic composites at room temperatures.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
The system allows obtaining temperature dependence of the elastic properties of the material by non-destructive impulse excitation method.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
A test system is designed for testing at temperatures up to 1600°C. Tests of metals, ceramics and composites can be performed in vacuum or under a protective argon atmosphere.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load measurement, different instrumented and non-instrumented pendulums from 0.5J up to 50J, dynamic tensile test adaptor. The fracture process can be monitored by high speed camera Olympus i-SPEED 3 with extreme low light sensitivity and up to 150,000 fps recoding.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load cell up to ± 250 N, loading speed up to 0.5 m/s. Fixtures for tensile and three or four point bend test.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Load cell of testing machine up to 2.5 kN. Micro hardness head equipped with instrumented Vickers, Knoop and universal micro-hardness test with load up to 200 N and position resolution 20 nm.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
An Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI) for high sensitive displacement and strain analysis.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
The analytical balances Denver Summit are precious tool for weighting of small samples with the precision of 0.1 mg. The available density kit broadens their application to the density measurement.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
for 4 channels continuous recording of AE signal with measuring and analysing software.

Contact: prof. Ing. Ivo Dlouhý, CSc.
Instrument for the non-destructive measurement of the elastic properties of materials.