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Any MechE's on here?

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enwar3

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I tried googling it. All I know is that Instron makes a lot of mechanical stress testing machines. It's called an Instron MTS. Anybody know what that is?
 
Well, this is the description for some research in college, and it includes:

"The student's responsibilities will involve testing/analyzing various mechanical properties of a new biocompatible material with an instron MTS machine."

I'm wondering because the place I work has access to many machines, including Instrom ones. Maybe I'll get lucky and can learn at work, but I gotta know what exactly the machine does first.
 
so nobody can answer his question thus you all think google makes you accaptable candidats to answer his qustion....rofl
 
I use an Instron machine almost daily at work. I think MTS just stands for "Materials Testing System". The company makes lots of different machines, but the most commonly used ones are the standard compression / tensile testing units, which is probably what the job description is referring to. These pretty much all do the same thing, although you can get different machine configurations (sizes and load ratings, single / dual column, etc), software packages, and numerous specialized grips, which would depend on what you are using the machine for.

Our particular machine is a dual-column machine rated at 10,000 lbs IIRC. It's 17 years old and was retrofit some years ago to output to a computer. Learning curve on these things is almost nonexistent - the hardest part is probably getting into the software and creating test methods. Which basically involves setting the test parameters, automatic stop conditions, and outputs.

I've actually spent a bit of time researching new ones, as ours seems to be flaking out a bit and Instron tells us that parts are no longer available for it.
 
I guess the MTS = Materials Testing System makes sense. Yea we've got a dual-column down in the lab, so I'm gonna familiarize myself with it. There's actually a lot of cool stuff down there. I wanna get me on the electron microscope sometime...

And so you say it's easy to learn to use one?
 
As long as you don't have a horribly out of date software package, yes. We upgraded our software package to Bluehill last year that is 100x better than Merlin, which is what we had before - and even that wasn't too bad.
 
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