Description

Vice action wire grip with renewable aluminium facing disks, which may be replaced with leather or hard rubber disks for delicate fibres. Test method is similar to that described in BS4545:1970 (mechanical testing of steel wire)

Specification

Maximum Capacity	2 kN	450 lbf
Minimum Load Cell	20 N	4.5 lbf
Maximum Sample Diameter	2 mm	0.1 in
Eye End Diameter	15.85 mm	0.62 in
Weight Each	0.15 Kg	0.3 lb
Length Each	80 mm	3.1 in
Temperature Limits	Ambient

Applications

Tensile testing of soft wires, cords and fibre, etc. By straining a sample, generally to break, and recording the relationship between force and extension, for the purpose of determining one or more of the following mechanical properties:

Elongation	Maximum Force
Percentage elongation	Stress
Extension	Tensile Strength
Percentage yield point extension	Yield Stress
Percentage reduction of area	Proof Stress