Test Facility for Composites and Their Constituents

	Ceramic Fiber/Ceramic Matrix Composite

Six in-house developed electromechanical, universal test machines:

• 10 kN load capacity, 150 mm stroke, and 8 nm displacement resolution.
• Computerized data acquisition and control.
• Environmental chambers to conduct tests in controlled atmospheres (e.g., inert gases with less than 10 ppm O₂, oxidizing and reducing environments, water vapor).
• Non-contact laser extensometry.
• Various specimen geometries, gripping arrangements, and fixtures (e.g., shoulder-loaded tensile specimens, minincomposites, single small diameter fibers and filaments, double- notched shear specimens, Iosipescu shear specimen).

Micromechanical universal testing machine:

• 1000 N load capacity, 25 mm stroke and 100 nm displacement resolution.
• Equipped with miniature load cells, encoders and capacitance gauges.
• Specially suited for composite interfacial testing by means of single-fiber push-in and push-out tests.
• Array of indenter geometries (e.g., Vickers, Knoop, Cube Corner, Diamond and WC flat punch) to conduct indentation tests.