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Torsional oscillation apparatus

US4003247A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 22, 1975
Grant dateJan 18, 1977
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Expiry dateOct 22, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N3/38
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a torsional oscillation apparatus, for example for testing plastics, a lower clamp is arranged in torsionally-fast or non-rotating manner, for one end of a test specimen, and an upper clamp is provided for the other end of the test specimen. The upper clamp is connected securely to the underside of an oscillatory body suspended from a thread or wire which is twistable in a substantially resistance-free manner. A tautening device exerts, on one of the clamps, a force which keeps the test specimen taut. A stimulating device provides stimulating torsional oscillations of the torsion pendulum formed by the test specimen and the oscillatory body, and a transducer, cooperating with the oscillatory body, produces electrical pulses corresponding to the torsional oscillation of the pendulum.

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