The leading teaching equipment provider for engineering students, PA Hilton, has launched a new Universal Testing Machine suitable for a host of study areas and including a multi-lingual lecturer resource guide.

The HSM58 is a modular, flexible, compact, and safe materials tester that allows students to conduct up to six (6) experiments on seven (7) different materials types, ensuring they have a practical understanding of materials properties and how their performance affects design.

The unit is built around a robust, simple benchtop unit suitable for a range of study areas including: Young’s Modulus; Hooke’s Law; Poisson’s Ratio; Modulus of Elasticity; Shear Modulus; Material Hardness, the Brinell Method; Beam Bending Theory; Planar Moment of Inertia; and Deep Drawing.

Fully enclosed, the unit allows safe 360 degrees viewing, maximising visibility for large class sizes and enhancing the practical learning experience for students.

Says Paul Ingram of PA Hilton: “Our R&D and manufacturing teams are renowned for developing the highest quality, practical modular training systems which enable core training equipment to be developed over time by lecturing teams as the curriculum demands and budget allows.

“Built to endure, our products provide trouble-free, repeatable usage that lowers the whole-life cost of every product and delivers the very best teaching solutions. The new HSM58 is no exception with a base unit supported by a number of additional elements, optional extras and accessories.”

Learning capabilities for the HSM58 include tensile and compression, recording of stress-strain and modulus of elasticity testing. Additional modules cover deep draw testing, three-point bending, hardness testing, percentage elongation and shear, with unsymmetrical and symmetrical shear both supported and unsupported.  

The machine base unit comes with a safety guard, two tensile grips, two compression plates, a linear displacement transducer, electronic extensometer and a Data acquisition system to display data relating to elongation, extension and applied force as well as 40 tensile test specimens in aluminium, brass, steel and titanium. Compression specimens are also supplied.

The HSM58 lecturer resource guide is available in English, Spanish, and French with other languages likely to follow.