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Federal Office for Civil Protection, SPIEZ LABORATORY
Testing and measurement equipment
To satisfy its testing responsibilities, the following testing equipment is available:
- Fully automated testing apparatus to determine the resistance of warfare agents (YPAP90)
- Testing machine for tension test, compressive test and bend test. Up to 50 kN; tests possible in the following temperature range -50ºC to +150ºC
- Testers: Shore A and D hardness, IRHD micro-hardness and ball indentation hardness
- Measurement of density
- Abrasion tests and resilience tests on elastomers
- Resistance of polymer materials in a range of media such as oil, fat etc.
- Compression set and tension set tests on elastomer materials
- TGA, DSC, TMA, DMA thermal analyses of all polymer materials
- Qualitative FTIR analysis
- High speed test machines for , bending and puncture impact with load speeds up to 12 ms-1. Tests possible in the following temperature range: -40ºC to +200ºC
- Simulation of environmental systems, such as alternating climate, ozone aging and UV radiation resistance (XENOTEST and weather-ometer) etc.