Features and Benefits:
Test the tensile properties of your sample relative to temperature and capture high resolution images of the structural changes.

The TST350 is built with two precision ground stainless steel lead screws to maintain perfect uniform vertical and horizontal alignment. Sample jaws move in opposite directions to maintain sample in both reflected or transmitted microscope fields of view. This also means other transmitted techniques such as x-ray, needed for internal observation of sample structure can be used.

This graph generated by the Linksys 32X DV software shows a tensile testing experiment of 0.34 mm thick and 9mm wide Silicon Rubber sheet supplied by Samco Silicon Products.

As is expected of Linkam equipment, temperature control and accuracy is second to none, with a range from -196 to 350°C with 0.1°C control and up to 30°C/ min rates, there is virtually no temperature feedback to the measurement of force. The sample chamber is gas sealed and can be controlled with various gases via the gas valves built onto sides of the stage.

The new T95-LinkPad temperature controller with LCD touch screen control is used to quickly program a temperature profile by simply tapping the onscreen controls. The system can be upgraded by adding the intuitive Linksys 32 temperature control software to enable full PC programming of the temperature. Digital video capture facilitates time lapse image capture and creation of movies including sample data such as temperature, time, description and microscope used.