Ceramics

Rtec Instruments provides several standard and customized ceramic industry solutions to evaluate ceramics in coatings, materials, and components that are used across a wide range of applications. Our innovate ceramics tests support research and quality control in aerospace, the medical field, and ceramic tool assessment.

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Ceramic Industry Solutions We Offer

We provide the ceramics industry with the analysis needed for quality control and assessment to improve ceramic products and mechanical systems.

Friction, Wear

Several applications use ceramics because of their superior hardness, high wear resistance, good chemical resistance, and stability at high temperatures. Extreme applications, such as high loads, high temperatures, and corrosive environments commonly use ceramics.

Perform friction, wear, and tribology tests for ceramic coatings or materials under a wide test load range (from mN to 12,000 N) across a wide controlled environmental condition (-120°C to 1200°C), and under vacuum, corrosive, or high pressure environments. The choice depends on the application.

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

Fretting FFT Series

nano tribology of thin films using tribometer

scratch data images and analysis by Rtec Instruments

Scratch Resistance, Adhesion, Hardness

Several applications require testing ceramic coating surfaces. Based on the coating process, the end results can be very different. Rtec Instrument provides solutions for characterization of coating adhesion, scratch hardness, scratch resistance, wear, durability, fretting, roughness, corrosion resistance, and abrasion resistance. These ceramics tests are available at nano, micro and macro scales across a wide temperature and environmental conditions.

Indentation and Scratch Tester, SMT-5000

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

Fretting Wear

Fretting studies for the ceramics industry are of critical importance. Hard debris generated because of fretting cause for many failures. Rtec Instruments provides unequaled specifications for stroke and frequency control for fretting evaluation. Controlled stroke from 5 microns and frequency up to 500 Hz frequency across a wide temperature range makes it an ideal fretting wear tester.

Fretting FFT Series

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

High Temperature

Perform up to 1200°C high temperature tests of ceramic materials, coatings, and components. Characterize hot hardness, friction, fretting, wear, and many more under controlled atmospheric conditions.

Multi Function Tribometer, MFT-5000

Hot Hardness Tester

Ceramics 3D Imaging

Combine 4 imaging modes in one head. It requires only one mouse click to alternate between the different imaging modes. Image any surface with ease – transparent, flat, dark, flat, curved, and more.

3D Optical Profilometers, UP Series