Integrating adaptive AI capabilities with optical hardware, Vector reduces test throughput times and complexity, automating the process of capturing strain, improving measurement accuracy, data consistency and operator safety.
Vector eliminates the challenges of traditional contacting and non-contacting extensometers by utilising intelligent non-contact, high-accuracy measurement techniques to:
• Increase testing efficiency by reducing the need for operator intervention
• Measure strain through failure, however violent
• Measure simultaneously longitudinally and transverse
• Test in harsh environments or challenging light conditions
• Test highly fragile specimens
• Avoid introducing stress concentrations, such as damage from knife-edge contact
• Improve test success rate by eliminating contact-point slippage
• Eliminate the cost of consumable parts
• On larger test frames, locate below the moving member used to apply the test force viewing the test specimen across the test zone
Delivered pre-configured – plug in, power up and go! Both instrument setup and changes to accommodate varying gauge lengths, sizes and profile test specimens are eliminated.
A range of automation features such as specimen and gauge length detection simplify the operator interaction and improve test reliability.
Stereoscopic sensing detects machine or specimen misalignment and negates out-of-plane errors.
On-board processing delivers seamless and simple integration and eliminates all external control platforms.
Clear and simple visual status feedback and laser alignment guides, reduce operator training requirements and significantly improve test throughput.
Vector represents a significantly reduced capital investment compared to incumbent video-type extensometers, whilst also offering a comparable lifetime cost to that of a single mecahnical clip-on extensometer system.
