multiXtens®

The extremely high measurement accuracy combined with the extremely large measurement range makes multiXtens ideally suited to tensile, compression, flexure and cyclic tests on plastics, elastomers, metals, composites, rigid foams and many other materials. 

Advantages of the multiXtens

• Can be used up to specimen break, even with high forces and brittle specimen material
• Accuracy class 0.5 according to EN ISO 9513
• Maximum error +/-­ 1µm in differential movement measurement between two measuring points in a range from 20 µm to 200 µm, completely satisfying the additional requirement to ISO 527­-1 (2011)
• multiXtens is calibrated from 20 µm measurement travel in Class 0.5
• Compression and flexure tests can be run by simply exchanging the sensor arms
• A third measurement carriage enables transverse strain and fine strain extensometers to be automatically adapted to multiXtens
• Operation with temperature chambers possible using suitable sensor arms

• Transverse strain extensometer (contact, absolute measurement): can be swiveled through 15° with measurement in 2 cross-sectional planes and through 90° with measurement in 1, 2 or 4 cross-sectional planes (each available in two resolutions)
• Fine-strain extensometer (contact): inductive extensometer with combined or two separate signals for fine-strain measurement
• videoXtens transverse strain extensometer (optical): when used with multiXtens the result is an ideal system combining contact and optical strain measurement