Preparation of the physical test specimen can be a difficult and time consuming operation. A highly skilled machinist, a precision milling machine and considerable hand finishing can achieve the required configurations of the test specimen. However, the slow milling cutter speeds create heavy chip loads and can induce severe internal distortion to the machined edges.

Specimens of light gauge sheet are frequently die cut to the required test configuration. The basic principal of die cutting causes severe deformation to the critical specimen edges. Both conventional milling and die cutting create great variations and errors in the physical properties of the materials.

The ideal tensile specimen should duplicate the pure basic metal or plastic being tested with a total absence of tool marks, incipient cracks, induced stresses, internal deformation or heat distortion. Tensilkut achieves these ideal requirements and produces an almost perfect test specimen.

For nearly 65 years, Tensilkut Engineering has been manufacturing and selling precision equipment for the accurate preparation of physical test specimens. Designed to be located in the lab with the universal testing machine, Tensilkut machines can be used by lab personnel without previous machining experience. To view the complete line of Tensilkut products which can help you with all of your physical test specimen preparation needs click here