The MultiScale capability for the PLX-Benchtop enables mechanical property testing on samples as thin as 0.75 mm, and high-resolution mapping across welds and complex parts. Obtain stress-strain curves from samples too small or complex for tensile testing and unlock richer insights at every scale.
Simplified surface preparation, followed by a 30-minute per quadrant test, delivers quick results, while 2-day training gets your teams up and running fast.
The PLX-Portable has set a new industry standard, with record MAPE values for yield and tensile strength.
Results are generated straight from the dig site, with report-ready data available immediately and accessible from anywhere via cloud-based platform.
Obtaining mechanical property data from welds, thin sheets, and complex geometries often falls beyond the reach of conventional testing methods. The PLX-Benchtop MultiScale capability closes that gap, providing reliable, reproducible data, richer material insights, and efficient workflows.
With a choice of indenter sizes, the MultiScale capability generates stress-strain curves from samples as thin as 0.75 mm, enabling testing that was previously impossible.
Indents can be spaced as close as 1.5 mm apart, allowing property mapping across welds and complex parts, revealing variations that tensile testing may miss.
Enjoy the speed and ease of hardness testing without the ambiguity, with 5-minute physics-based tests that deliver defensible, mechanical property data.
Find out how NASA used the MultiScale capability to characterise local variations in mechanical properties within spaceflight components.
By mapping stress-strain responses across parts and joints, process-structure-property relationships were revealed to inform manufacturing optimisation and reduce conservative safety factors.
The PLX-Benchtop MultiScale capability operates across three indenter scales: 250 µm, 500 µm, and 1000 µm, capturing mechanical behaviour at a variety of scales. The 1000 µm indenter comes standard in every PLX-Benchtop system.
Access the 250 µm and 500 µm indenters through your CORSICA+ subscription to gain access to advanced inverse-modelling, higher-resolution mapping, and deeper material insight, all from the same PLX system.
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