The Phoenix Environmental Chamber is designed to work at temperatures ranging from -190°C up to +2000°C and can be supplied with the necessary heating requirements, additional environmental controls and accessories, and can be designed to work with our Phoenix Bench Top Test machine or any existing customer equipment.
Environmental Chambers
- Suitable for testing temperatures up to 2000°C
- Suitable for any make of test machine
- Pressure testing up to 3bar
- New range of chambers designed to test at elevated pressures (up to 100bar)
- Designed to carry out a wide range of environmental testing applications
The Phoenix Environmental Chamber offers high performance testing for a range of applications, in extreme temperatures and conditions.
With many of our customers looking at the individual and combined effects of various environments and temperatures on failure, it is vital that our environmental test chambers are versatile enough to accommodate all of your testing needs.
Overview
Materials & Tests
Using our temperature controlled chambers, you can test a range of environmental conditions, including under vacuum, inert gas, corrosive gas and oxygen enriched atmospheres, including humidity control.
Our chambers can also be used to carry out creep, static and fatigue (LCF and HCF) testing, and Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue (TMF) Testing.
The Phoenix Environmental Chamber is suitable for testing a range of materials, including metallic, ceramic and composite materials.
Specifications
Design
The chamber is manufactured from stainless steel (316L). The front door, seals and viewing ports may vary to support different atmospheres or non-contact measuring devices*.
If you have specific design requirements, such as the angles you wish to view a sample under test using DIC, Phoenix can offer guidance and advice, and review the design accordingly.
The chambers are equipped with lead throughs and ports to accommodate strain measurement, pyrometry, LVDTs and PD (crack propagation) systems.
The chamber is built with integral water cooling galleries to prevent the chamber body from getting hot when testing at elevated temperatures.
*Thermal imaging requires a different type of glass to a DIC system.
Installation
The Phoenix Environmental Chamber can be retrofitted to existing Phoenix machines, or any other make of test machine frame. Our chambers can also be supplied with the necessary heating, environmental controls and fixtures, or designed to work with your existing accessories.
Fixtures and Fittings
The high temperature loading bars can be supplied with adapters to accept a full range of sample grips including 3 and 4-point bend, CT, LCF, HCF and bespoke customer design. The grips are suitable for tension, compression and through zero testing.
If rapid sample cooling is required, the loading bars can work with the hollow samples to allow forced cooling (air or water) through the sample.
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Accreditations
Rolls Royce Technical Approval for High Temperature and Environmental Testing
The Design, Manufacture, Commissioning, Maintenance and support of Materials Testing Machines. ISO 9001 - ISO 14001 - OHSAS 18001, Cert. No. 15997-QMS-001
