Testing of Heavy Plate:
	The tensile testing of heavy plate poses various challenges to the steel in-dustry. With test specimens weighing up to 10kg operators can have diffi-culty trying to accurately place and align the specimen in the grips of the test-ing machine. Zwick recently provided one of its customers with a completely automatic solution which also allows testing 24 hours per day.
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	Everything Automatic … and Still Flexible
	Zwick has developed a robotic testing system for testing steel concrete reinforcing bars and concrete mesh reinforcement which performs all the testing automatically, yet still allows flexible testing around the clock.
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	Testing of Metal Wire:
	Tensile tests for metal specimens such as wires are often performed in small se-ries of 5 to 20 single specimens. This provides a statistical value for the test re-sults and can identify individual deviations. The time required for testing a series with 20 specimens is somewhere between 15 and 45 minutes, depending on specimen strain and testing speed. If multiple operators perform the tests, the re-sults generally show greater variance. Even different hand temperatures can be a contributing factor.
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	Testing Equipment for Static Tests
	In order to determine their strength and deformation properties, metals and components are subjected to tensile, bending, and pressure stress as well as to shearing and torsion.
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	Testing Equipment for Dynamic Tests
	Zwick servohydraulic testing machines are versatile: they can be used flexibly in nearly all testing applications. They are suited for tensile, pressure, and bending tests with quick, latent, cyclic or varying loads as well as for static, quasi-static, and dynamic testing of materials and components.
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	Testing over Extended Temperature Ranges
	Static and dynamic tests may require testing in an expanded temperature range of up to 1200 °C (1600 °C). As a system suppler, Zwick has the necessary accessories to fulfill this requirement.
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	Testing Equipment for Fracture Mechanics, Rotary Bending, and Dynamic Fatigue Tests
	Accessories developed for specific applications allow the determination of fracture mechanical parameters. The fatigue strength under reverse bending stress can be determined with rotary bending testing machines, the dynamic fatigue strength with economically optimized vibrophores (high-frequency pulsators).
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