Equipment R&D

Equipment

In-house development of dedicated test equipment and methods — high-speed penetration, bonded-joint performance, multiaxial fatigue and other demanding scenarios — providing solid technical support for materials development and quality control.

15+
In-house equipment models
20+
Test method patents
3
R&D bases
100%
Own intellectual property
Core Capabilities

R&D directions and core capabilities

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High-speed mechanics
High-strain-rate test equipment
In-house design of high-speed penetration and tensile test systems, pushing past conventional strain-rate limits to reproduce real loading conditions.
  • High-speed penetration: up to 20 m/s, adjustable strain rate 10² – 10⁴ s⁻¹
  • High-speed tension: up to 4000 s⁻¹, temperature chamber −40 °C to 150 °C
  • Projectile impact: reproducing crash, armour-piercing and other extreme conditions
  • Optimised Split Hopkinson Bar (SHPB) design
20m/s High strain rate SHPB Crash simulation
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Bonding technology
Bonded-joint performance test system
Dedicated to quality assessment and constitutive model development for structural adhesives, welding, riveting and other joining processes.
  • 90° / 180° peel testing, multi-material combinations
  • Single-lap / double-lap shear
  • Bond strength evolution with temperature / ageing time
  • Fracture toughness G_IC / G_IIC determination
Peel strength Shear strength Fracture toughness Constitutive models
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Fatigue life
Multiaxial fatigue test system
Fatigue assessment under complex stress states, supporting life prediction for automotive structures and high-end equipment.
  • Coupled axial + torsion loading
  • Planar biaxial / equal-biaxial tension
  • High-frequency fatigue: 300 Hz electromagnetic resonance
  • Creep-fatigue coupling, up to 300 °C
Multiaxial loading Equal biaxial 300Hz Creep-fatigue
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Custom engineering
Custom test equipment
Purpose-built test fixtures and systems developed around the customer's product and test requirements.
  • Design and manufacture of non-standard specimen fixtures
  • Product-specific fixtures (composites, irregular parts)
  • Multi-channel synchronised loading systems
  • CNC precision machining, dimensional accuracy ±0.02 mm
Custom engineering Fixture design CNC machining
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Method development
Test method and standard development
Developing dedicated test methods for new materials, processes and applications, and contributing to industry standards.
  • Drafting in-house test specifications (IET)
  • Participation in national / industry standard development
  • Design of interlaboratory comparison (PT) schemes
  • Measurement uncertainty evaluation (GUM / MCM)
Method development Standard development Uncertainty
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Smart testing
Sensor technology and data acquisition
Selection and integration of high-accuracy sensors and development of data acquisition systems, underpinning the credibility of high-end test data.
  • DIC 3D full-field strain measurement (sub-pixel accuracy)
  • High-speed imaging with synchronised triggered acquisition
  • Multi-channel synchronous sampling, up to 10 MHz
  • Data processing software: Python / LabVIEW / MATLAB
DIC High-speed imaging Data acquisition
R&D Process

Development process

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Step 01

Requirements analysis

Understand the product's operating conditions and test objectives, benchmarked against industry standards and competing methods

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Step 02

Concept design

3D modelling and design review of mechanical structure, sensor configuration and data acquisition

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Step 03

Prototype build

CNC machining and assembly, controller and software integration, iterative optimisation

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Step 04

Validation and calibration

Validation with standard specimens, uncertainty evaluation, repeatability and reproducibility (R&R) analysis

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Step 05

Delivery and application

Operator training, test specification handover, ongoing technical support and upgrades

R&D Facilities

Equipment

Equipment 1
DH5922D dynamic signal acquisition system
Equipment 2
Equal-biaxial tension fixture
Equipment 3
Composite shear test fixture
Equipment 4
Material thermal conductivity test system
Equipment 5
Tensile pre-stress corrosion fixture
Equipment 6
Welding process quality assessment
Equipment 7
ASTM D5379 V-notch shear fixture
Equipment 8
ASTM D7774 dynamic fatigue testing of adhesives
Technical Standards

Technical qualifications and standards

Patent 1
Low-temperature impact specimen conditioning fixture
Patent 2
Compression set test fixture
Patent 3
Indentation deformation fixture
Patent 4
Large-capacity visual water bath fixture
Patent 5
Weatherstrip linear abrasion test fixture
Patent 6
Stress-cracking open-gauge fixture
Patent 7
Stress-cracking specimen bending fixture
Patent 8
Manual clamp tensile fixture
Patent 9
Tensile shear fixture
Patent 10
Drop-weight impact test fixture
Patent 11
Coating peel strength test fixture
Patent 12
Roller peel test fixture
Patent 13
Four-point bending test rig
Patent 14
Leather flexing test fixture
Patent 15
Constant-load tensile fixture

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