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| TE 53 Multi-purpose friction and wear tester |
 | The Multi-Purpose Friction and Wear Tester is a versatile machine offering uni-directional sliding tests in block on ring configuration and combined rolling/sliding tests in two roller configuration. The machine was developed under licence from the United Kingdom National Centre of Tribology. Tests may be run according to procedures described under ASTM G 77 and ISO/DIS 7148-2 Part 1 and Part 2.
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| TE 53 SLIM Multi-purpose friction and wear tester |
 | The TE 53SLIM Multi-Purpose Friction and Wear Tester is a versatile machine offering uni-directional sliding tests in block on ring configuration and combined rolling/sliding tests in two roller configuration. The machine was developed under a licence from the United Kingdom National Centre of Tribology. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 Windows Based control and data acquisition software. Tests may be run according to procedures described under ASTM G 77 and ISO/DIS 7148-2.
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| TE 55 Lubricity test machine |
 | In recent years a great deal of attention has been made to the development of meaningful tests for the lubricity of fuels. The main reasons are that additive levels are being reduced, new non-sulphur fuels are required by legislation, and failures are being experienced in fuel system pumps and injectors. There are two possible directions to take. The first is to use a pump, pump parts or injector parts to run a test. This depends on obtaining uniform test samples (pumps are not designed as test specimens) and are expensive to run. The second is to use bench test machines. These offer simple, well defined test specimens, are cheap to run and give easy access to the surfaces for examination. However, some consideration must be made to the choice of test specimen material and test conditions (load, speed, temperature, time) to achieve good correlation with pump experience. There are two main standard test rigs for fuels - the ASTM D5001 BOCLE (Ball on Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator), and HFFR (High Frequency Friction Rig). A third, the TAFLE (Thornton Aviation Fuel Lubricity Evaluator) has been used successfully by Shell Research. Work is being carried out at the CEC and SWRI to evaluate these methods and evolve new standard procedures. The Lubricity Test Machine is a multi-function unit with adapters for ball on cylinder (BOCLE) and cylinder on cylinder (TAFLE) and crossed cylinder contact configurations. The main unit is based on the TE 53 Multi-Purpose Friction and Wear Tester. The machine may be used for evaluating both fuels and lubricants. The TE 70 Micro Friction Machine and the TE 77 High Frequency Friction Machine may be used for the HFFR test.
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| TE 55 SLIM Lubricity test machine |
| In recent years a great deal of attention has been
made to the development of meaningful tests for the lubricity of fuels. The
main reasons are that additive levels are being reduced, new non-sulphur fuels
are required by legislation, and failures are being experienced in fuel system
pumps and injectors. There are two possible directions to take. The first is
to use a pump, pump parts or injector parts to run a test. This depends on
obtaining uniform test samples (pumps are not designed as test specimens) and
are expensive to run. The second is to use bench test machines. These offer
simple, well defined test specimens, are cheap to run and give easy access to
the surfaces for examination. However, some consideration must be made to the
choice of test specimen material and test conditions (load, speed, temperature,
time) to achieve good correlation with pump experience. There are two main
standard test rigs for fuels - the ASTM D5001 BOCLE (Ball on Cylinder
Lubricity Evaluator), and HFFR (High Frequency Friction Rig). A third, the
TAFLE (Thornton Aviation Fuel Lubricity Evaluator) has been used successfully
by Shell Research. Work is being carried out at the CEC and SWRI to evaluate
these methods and evolve new standard procedures. The TE 55SLIM Lubricity Test
Machine is a multi-function unit with adapters for ball on cylinder (BOCLE)
and cylinder on cylinder (TAFLE) and crossed cylinder contact configurations.
The control unit includes a SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND
2000 Windows based control and data acquisition software. The main unit is
based on the TE 53 Multi-Purpose Friction and Wear Tester. The machine may be
used for evaluating both fuels and lubricants. The TE 70 Micro Friction
Machine and the TE 77 High Frequency Friction Machine may be used for the HFFR
test.
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| TE 56 Multi-station block on ring machine |
 | The Multi-Station Block-on-Ring Machine is a cost
effective wear and friction test machine with simple test specimens offering
conforming and non-conforming block-on-ring contact geometry. It has a series
of four friction and wear test stations independently loaded but on a common
rotating shaft. The machine meets and exceeds the requirements of ASTM G
137-95. Relocating block specimen holders provide for accurate repositioning
of the specimens after weighing: this enables wear to be measured during long
period tests. The control unit includes a SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface
Module and Windows based software for control and data acquisition. |
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| TE 62 Bench/on-line viscometer |
 | This innovative device differs from all other bench-top instruments on the market in that it does not use a sensitive torque transducer to make the viscosity measurement. In addition, no separate temperature controlled bath is required because the test chamber forms part of the heated aluminium block. As a result the viscometer is very robust and can withstand the likely abuses of on-site measurements. In the TE 62 Bench/On-Line Viscometer the only moving part is the rotor. The test chamber forms a half journal bearing and the rotor is offset by a small amount. The net result is that when the rotor is driven at a constant speed a hydrodynamic pressure is generated and this pressure is directly proportional to the viscosity of the oil. |
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| TE 63 Grease/oil viscometer |
 | The Grease/Oil Viscometer is a dual purpose machine designed to measure the apparent viscosity of greases, using an orbiting rotor to work the grease, as well conducting rotary viscometry tests with oil. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 Windows Based control and data acquisition software.
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| TE 65 Multiplex sand/wheel abrasion tester |
 | Abrasive wear of industrial materials handling plant (e.g. transfer chutes, conveyors and hoppers) is a direct cause of repair, replacement and downtime and represents a major factor in the cost of production. Abrasive wear is also an important factor in determining the life of tillage and construction equipment and in the case of tillage tools has a direct impact on the draft forces required to pull the plough. There is therefore considerable interest in the design, development and use of cost effective wear resistant materials for such applications. The wear resistance of a material cannot be predicted reliably from simple properties such as bulk hardness, elastic modulus or tensile strength. There is therefore a need for a reliable and convenient approach to the study of abrasive wear properties. A number of standard methods have been developed with the aim of producing test data that will reproducibly rank materials under a specified set of conditions. The most widely used are the sand/rubber wheel test in dry (ASTM G 65) and wet (ASTM G 105) conditions and a sand/steel wheel test in wet conditions (ASTM B 611). These define tests under dry or slurry conditions with specified loads, wheel speeds and sand feed rate. In all cases the abrasive used is rounded quartz grain sand. In practice, abrasive materials will vary considerably in hardness, crushing strength and shape from the sand specified in the ASTM standards. Rankings of wear resistance obtained with quartz sand may bear little relation to wear with other abradants such as subangular quartz, silica sand, alumina, sinter, coke and coal. |
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| TE 66 Micro-scale abrasion tester |
 | The Micro-Scale Abrasion Tester is based on an experimental technique developed by I M Hutchings and K L Rutherford of Cambridge University Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and is manufactured by Plint and Partners under license. The TE 66 may be used to determine the wear coefficient of hard and soft coatings and monolithic materials by abrasive wear in a ball on plate contact configuration. The machine may also be used as a crater generating tool on coated surfaces for coating thickness determination. |
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| TE 66 SLIM Micro-scale abrasion tester |
| The Micro-Scale Abrasion Tester is based on an experimental technique developed by I M Hutchings and K L Rutherford of Cambridge University Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and is manufactured by Plint and Partners under license. The TE 66SLIM may be used to determine the wear coefficient of hard and soft coatings and monolithic materials by abrasive wear in a ball on plate contact configuration. The machine may also be used as a crater generating tool on coated surfaces for coating thickness determination. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and DATA SLIM Windows based data acquisition software. |
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| TE 67 Microprocessor controlled PIN on disc machine |
 | The Microprocessor Controlled Pin on Disc Machine has a Class 1 contact configuration (pin or ball loaded vertically downwards onto a horizontally rotating disc) and accommodates a variety of test geometries. The principle features of the unit are very rigid pin and disc carriers to allow nominally flat-on-flat contact and the use of pneumatic loading on the pin to reduce inertial loading effects in the contact at high loads. This latter feature is an important difference from other pin on disc designs that use dead weights and a load beam. The loading inertia can effect dramatically the friction and wear data obtained. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 Windows based control and data acquisition software. The automatic control of load, speed, temperature and test duration, combined with flexible data logging and alarm level checking, greatly facilitates use of the TE 67 for in-depth parametric studies in the wear of materials as well as more routine screening and development problems. The operating ranges can be extended with options for air heating, a lubricant enclosure, a reciprocating plate adapter, line contact adapter and fixtures for piston-ring/cylinder liner and annulus (thrust washer type) specimens. Test may be run in pin/ball on disc mode according to the guidelines laid out in ASTM G 99, DIN 50324 and ISO/DIS 7148-2 and in reciprocating mode according to ASTM F 732.
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| TE 68 Gas jet erosion ring |
 | The Gas Jet Erosion Rig is based on an experimental technique developed by Dr. I M Hutchings Cambridge University Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, in association with Dr. A. Ramamurthy and Freese Enterprises in the USA. It is manufactured by Plint and Partners under license. The TE 68 may be used to determine the wear coefficient of hard and soft coatings and monolithic materials by erosive wear of a gas borne stream of particles. Erosion is an important wear mechanism in industrial applications. Despite the existence of ASTM and DIN standard methods, everyone has their own way of doing erosion tests. ASTM G 76 "Standard Practice for Conducting Erosion Tests by Solid Particle Impingement" in fact acknowledges that the one single laboratory test may not be sufficient to evaluate expected service performance. Actual erosion service can involve a range of particle sizes, velocities, attack angles & environments, all of which influence erosion rate. |
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| TE 70 Micro-friction machine |
 | The Micro-Friction Machine is a bench mounting test machine offering friction evaluation and wear testing in a reciprocating ball-on-plate contact configuration. The unit is designed for testing under lubricated and unlubricated contact conditions with a range of strokes and frequencies under light loads. The TE 70 conforms to the test requirements for the ISO/DIS 12156-2 HFFR Diesel Fuel Lubricity Test. |
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| TE 70 SLIM Micro-friction machine |
| The Micro-Friction Machine is a bench mounting test machine offering friction evaluation and wear testing in a reciprocating ball-on-plate contact configuration. The unit is designed for testing under lubricated and unlubricated contact conditions with a range of strokes and frequencies under light loads. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and SLIM COMPEND control and data acquisition software. The TE 70 conforms to the test requirements for the ISO/DIS 12156-2 HFFR Diesel Fuel Lubricity Test. |
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| TE 71 Optical viscometer |
 | The Optical Viscometer is based on a test rig designed by Professor Cameron at Imperial College, London. Oil film thickness in an elastohydrodynamic (ehd) contact is highly dependent on the effective viscosity of the oil in the inlet zone. This fact allows the simple Optical Elastohydrodynamic technique to be used as a method for determining effective viscosity of oils used to lubricate ehd contacts. The TE 71 provides vivid colour pictures of film thickness profiles in an ehd contact and a method for assessing the viscosity loss in polymer thickened oils at high shear rates and pressures. |
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| TE 72 Multiplex two roller machine |
![]() | The TE 72 Multiplex Open Loop Two Roller Machine is a research machine for the study of highly loaded lubricated power transmitting contacts and rolling contact fatigue of materials. The successful operation of machine elements such as gears, rolling bearings, cam/follower systems and traction drives is vital to industry. The common feature to all these is that fact that power or motion is transmitted through highly loaded lubricated contacts with rolling or combined rolling and sliding motion. The high loads (or contact pressures) result in elastic deformation of the surfaces in contact and the components operate under elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The performance of the gear, cam or bearing is dependent on both the material and the lubricant withstanding the highly stressed conditions in the contact. In the case of gears, the motion of rolling and sliding at a given instant in the meshing cycle can be reproduced by two circular rollers of radii equal to the pitch circle rotating with equal and opposite angular velocity about fixed centres. |
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| TE 73 High speed two roller machine |
 | The High Speed Two Roller Machine is a research machine for the study of highly loaded lubricated power transmitting contacts and rolling contact fatigue of materials. The successful operation of machine elements such as gears, rolling bearings, cam/follower systems and traction drives is vital to industry. The common feature to all these is that fact that power or motion is transmitted through highly loaded lubricated contacts with rolling or combined rolling and sliding motion. The high loads (or contact pressures) result in elastic deformation of the surfaces in contact and the components operate under elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The performance of the gear, cam or bearing is dependent on both the material and the lubricant withstanding the highly stressed conditions in the contact. In the case of gears, the motion of rolling and sliding at a given instant in the meshing cycle can be reproduced by two circular rollers of radii equal to the pitch circle rotating with equal and opposite angular velocity about fixed centres. |
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| TE 75 P Production rubber friction test machine |
 | The Production Rubber Friction Test Machine is tailored to meet the needs of
routine friction evaluation of production rubber parts and small scale
development programs. Typical contact configurations are ball on rubber flat
and plate on rubber hemisphere. Thin rubber sheet samples may be tested by
clamping them against a rubber backing. Other items such as threads, gloves
and seals may be tested by the provision of suitable holders. The TE 75P was
developed under licence from Rubber Consultants, part of the UK Malaysian
Rubber Producers Research Association. The control unit includes a SLIM 2000
Serial Link Interface Module and Windows based software for control and data
acquisition. |
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| TE 75 R Research rubber friction test machine |
| The Research Rubber Friction Test Machine offers the ability to investigate fully the frictional behaviour of rubbery materials both in dry and lubricated environments. It can also be used to study the friction of cosmetic products by using a suitable model for human skin. Typical contact configurations are ball on rubber flat and plate on rubber hemisphere. Thin rubber sheet samples may be tested by clamping them against a rubber backing. Other items such as threads, gloves and seals may be tested by the provision of suitable holders. The TE 75R was developed under licence from Rubber Consultants, part of the UK Malaysian Rubber Producers Research Association. The control unit includes a SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 Windows based control and data acquisition software. |
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| TE 76 Scanning micro hardness tester |
 | The TE 76 Scanning Micro Hardness Tester is based on an original concept and detailed design developed by Dr. Mark Stewart, Dr. Bryan Roebuck and Dr. Mark Gee of the Centre for Materials Measurement and Technology at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK. It is manufactured under licence by Plint and Partners. |
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| TE 77 High frequency friction machine |
 | The High Frequency Friction Machine is a versatile test machine for the evaluation of lubricants and the friction and wear properties of materials in dry and lubricated reciprocating sliding or rolling/sliding contact conditions. The control unit includes the SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 Windows based software for sequence control and data acquisition on a host PC. The TE 77 is based on a concept developed in the late 1970's by Professor Cameron at Imperial College, London. With over 100 units around the world, the TE 77 is now well established as a research and development tool for lubricants, materials, coatings and surface treatments. |
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| TE 79 Multi-axis tribometer |
 | The Multi-Axis Tribometer is suited to the friction and wear testing of
materials under low loads in pin (or ball) on disc contact and friction
testing in pin on plate mode. In pin on disc mode the machine can perform
tests according to ASTM G 99 and DIN 50 324 and provides a Class 1 contact
configuration (pin or ball loaded vertically downwards onto a horizontally
rotating disc). |
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| TE 82 HS High speed rolling four ball machine |
 | Testing materials and lubricants for rolling contact fatigue performance is time consuming in conventional low speed 4-Ball Machines because the time to failure is very long. The High Speed Rolling Four Ball Machine offers rolling tests at speeds up to 20,000 rpm and therefore failures that can be detected in hours rather than days of testing. The machine runs tests according to the IP 300 procedure. The TE 82HS has been used extensively for testing the fatigue of metal, ceramic and polymeric balls. |
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| TE 88 Multi-station friction and wear test machine |
 | The Multi-Station Friction and Wear Test Machine is suited to the wear testing of materials under high contact pressures in pin on disc, block on ring or pin on plate modes. In reciprocating mode the machine can perform tests in the ASTM F 732 geometry, in Pin on Disc mode according to ASTM G 99, DIN 50 324 and ISO/DIS 7148-2 and in Block on Ring Mode according to ASTM G 77 and ISO/DIS 7148-2. The machine may be supplied with one, two and three Pin on Disc or Block on Ring stations and three Reciprocating Pin on Plate stations and incorporates an integrated SLIM 2000 Serial Link Interface Module and COMPEND 2000 software running on a host PC. A separate package TE 88SIX offers a dedicated six station reciprocating machine. |
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| TE 89 Hip and knee joint friction simulator |
 | Artificial joints operate in the mixed lubrication regime, not with the full fluid films observed for natural human joints under physiological loading. As a result, artificial joints will experience higher friction and wear due to metal-plastic contact. Full fluid film lubrication is achieved in the natural joint as a result of the high degree of compliance of the joint surfaces. |
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| TE 92 Microprocessor controlled rotary tribometer |
 | The Microprocessor Controlled Rotary Tribometer is a versatile test machine for research and development work on materials and lubricants. With collinear rotating and loading axes and an open test platform the TE 92 can accommodate a number of tribology test geometries, many relating to international test standards. |
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| TE 92 HS High speed microprocessor controlled rotary tribometer |
| The Microprocessor Controlled Rotary Tribometer is a versatile test machine for research and development work on materials and lubricants. With collinear rotating and loading axes and an open test platform the TE 92HS can accommodate a number of tribology test geometries, many relating to international test standards. |
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