Today’s bone drills face exacting requirements with regard to cutting edge characteristics, contact force required, chemical resistance and avoiding bone heating. This test device is used to determine contact force, penetration force and torque required for a bone drill. Depending on the area of use, dental drills, cortical drills, oral surgery drills etc. are screwed into the appropriate material – dentine, bone or substitutes – using a specified feed pressure and torque. 

The test allows overlaid measurement of torque and compression force. Zwick’s comprehensive testing machine concept additionally provides flexure fatigue resistance testing via a 3-point flexure device plus hardness testing of the basic material.