Digital Controller & Software for Material Testing Model No RB 306 NEXCADETM and HELIOTM

R&B NEXCADETM Controller Group

Digital modular controller for all kind of testing

Reproducible and reliable solution for material testing

R&B Inc.

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R&B NEXCADETM Controller Group Multi purpose, modular type Digital Controllers

Versatile and Reliable Performance R&B has supplied various kind of material testing systems in the fields of precise mechanical testing during last two decades. Engineers in many industries including metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors have been used R&B testing equipments and software to test the durability and performance of products and materials R&B supplies the tailored technology and tips to help the user’s precise test a materials, designs and products in the field of automobiles, aircraft, construction, bio and medical devices field. During last 15 years, R&B has developed and upgraded continuously the digital controllers for material testing. The latest version of R&B new NEXCADE controllers group used with same main board has been established. User can save time and effort in training and testing setup as this same hardware platform. Also users can expand their testing capabilities easy and low cost.

The basic design of NEXCADE controllers group has been based on diversity of R&B experience in provided solutions for extreme conditions. These new controllers group are used to carry out a test set up, accurate closed-loop control, data acquisition, sensor conditioning to suit for testing needs.

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Creative Hardware The new NEXCADE digital controller has been developed with many user’s feedback data and latest computer version during last 15 years These controllers are upgraded several times and currently finished to set up 3th generation modular digital controller NEXCADE 7 These controllers all share a common set of boards and I/O modules. R&B NEXCADE Controller Advantages R&B supplies reproducible, trustworthy, easy-to-use, and cheaper controllers suitable to various test requirements. R&B controllers have following advantages ▪ Test schedule set up ▪ Optimum test control algorism ▪ High level Safety ▪ Flexible expending capability

Advantages in Test schedule set up Through the use of HELIO 7 software and its scheduler function, user can set up test schedule very easy. HELIO 7 is a powerful and flexible software application for material testing. Advantages in Test control algorism By various compensation techniques, user can carry out complex tests very precisely. Advantages in Safety Dual structure on safety is adapted for user’s safety. Hardware limits and software limits are applied. Advantages in Flexible expanding capability The structure of NEXCADE controller is composed by use of modular architecture which can be easily upgraded. Additional boards can be added in the field directly These capabilities help user to expand controller capacity and extend the long life time of controller economically.

NEXCADE 7 Controller For RB 300 UNITECH Material testing system series, 100 Series Wear tester NEXCADE 7S Controller – Simple model For RB 300 UNITECH Material testing system series, 100 Series Wear tester

NEXCADE 7C Controller For RB 305 Creep system series

NEXCADE 7R Controller For RB 304 CERT (SSRT) system

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NEXCADE 7 Digital Controllers Group There are four kinds of controllers in NEXCADE 7 digital controller group - 7,7S, 7C, 7R NEXCADE 7

Controller is principal model of R&B controller and used for most systems including RB 300 UNITECH Material testing system series and 100 Series Wear testers

NEXCADE 7S Controller is simple model of 7 Series and has nearly same functions and capabilities except LCD display panel.

NEXCADE 7C Controller is used for RB 305 Creep system series.

NEXCADE 7R Controller is used for RB 304 CERT (SSRT) system

Characteristics of NEXCADE 7

• Suitable for all material testing

• Tensile, Compression, Bending and other monotonic test

• User defined test including slow cyclic test

• Constant load control test (Option)

• Economically combination as modular design

• Fully computer driven type controller

• LAN (Local Area Network) interface

• Data logger attachable for large channel data acquisition.

This controller has following functions

• Testing mode

Tensile test

Compression test

Bending test

Indentation test

Cycle test

Shear test

Creep test

Stress relaxation test

True strain rate test

• Control mode

Load control Displacement control Strain control Calculated value control

• Safety function

Load /Stroke/Strain/Stress/A/D channel limit function

Crosshead upper limit function Crosshead lower limit function Emergency stop Additional channel limit function Test time limit function Extensometer limit function

• Analog Input channel Type: Strain gage type (Load cell,

Extensometer), 4-20mA, 0-10V, TC Number of channel: 1EA /1 Slot card

(Slot card extension possible) Excitation voltage: 5, 10V Resolution: 24 bit

• Digital input channel: 5 Digital displacement input channel

2(Digimatic indicator) Digital I/O: 3(I/O) + 2(Inner) Limit input channel: 8(Inner)

• Output channel Analog output, -10~+10V, 4-20mA Relay control: 4(N.O:2ea + N.C:2ea) Motion control channel: 2

• A/D port for additional interface • Digital display: 8” LCD • Additional sensor calibration mode • Schedule saves and feedback control functions. • Specification position movement function. • Auto stopping at specimen fracture

Broken load setting

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Specification

NEXCADE 7 Digital Remote Controller

▪ ARM Cortex-M4 32bit MCU+FPU

▪ 100 Mbps LAN interface

▪ 5 channel Digital I/O

▪ All kind of machine DIO control

▪ A/D channel limit

▪ Self test mode

▪ PID value setting mode

▪ Digital LVDT input

▪ Long travel extensometer input

▪ Temperature control (up to 99 channels)

▪ Analog output,-10~+10V

▪ Data acquisition resolution: 24 bit

▪ Data acquisition rate: Up to 100 kHz/1 ch,

10kHz/multi- ch

▪ All channel data can be stored simultaneously.

▪ Signal Conditioner: Number of channel: 8

▪ Measurement range: Variable(up to range of sensor)

▪ Excitation voltage: 5, 10 VDC

▪ Interlock: All kind of interlock can be monitored.

▪ Control modes: Displacement, load, strain, true

strain and other sensors

▪ Operating Environment

Temperature: 5~50C

Humidity: 10~90 RH%

▪ Load limited displacement control function

for sample setting

▪ Power: 220 VAC, Single phase, Current: 4 A

LCD Display

▪ Stress and Strain curve display

On line display the curve of any kind of combination including load, strain, stress

displacement and time ▪ On line display of data

Including load, stress, displacement, strain and temperature

▪ Test without PC Simple test is possible with remote controller Exclusive control to prevent control from any

other source Start, pause and stop the test application

program ▪ Test set up

Test condition set up Setting the test parameter, load, displacement rate, data acquisition rate Limit level set up Conveniently move crosshead to install and replace test specimens

Back panel of NEXCADE 7 &7S

NEXCADE 7 Controller Specification Description Specification

Controller CPU ARM 32bit MCU+FPU

Communication TCP/IP 100 Mbps LAN interface

Data Acquisition Resolution 24 bit Sampling rate: up to 100 kHz/1 Ch, 10kHz/multi- Ch

Extensional Signal Conditioner Function module

Up to 4 Channels

Control mode Displacement, Load, Strain, Calculated value control True strain rate control

Analog input Strain gage type (4-20mA, 0-10V)

Maximum 6 channels(Standard 4 channels)

Analog output -10~+10V

Maximum 5channels(Standard 2 channels)

Safety functions Load /Stroke/Strain/Stress/A/D channel limit Additional

channel limit function

Digital I/O 5 channel

Temperature Control Up to 99 Channel

Dimension

Height 169 mm Width 425 mm Depth 340 mm Weight 5.7 kg

Condition Temperature 5 ~50℃ Humidity 10 ~90 RH%

Electricity Voltage 220 VAC Current 4 A

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NEXCADE Digital Controller Group Specifications

Description NEXCADE 7 NEXCADE 7S NEXCADE 7C NEXCADE 7R

Control Channels Up to 4 Up to 2 Up to 2 Up to 4 Conditioned Transducer Inputs

Up to 8 Up to 6 Up to 4 Up to 8

User Definable Digital I/O 8/8 available 6/6 available 4/4 available 8/8 available Input on voltage 2.7-24 VDC @ 0.5 mA minimum Input resistance 2 k ohm

Output 5V, 1A

maximum 5V, 1A

maximum 5V, 1A

maximum 5V, 1A

maximum Maximum System Update rate

1-2 control channels 1000 Hz 6000 Hz 200 Hz 1000 Hz 3-4 control channels 200 Hz NA 10 Hz 200 Hz 5-8 control channels 20 Hz NA NA 20 Hz Dimensions Height 169mm 60mm 169mm 169mm Width 425mm 350mm 425mm 425mm Depth 340mm 260mm 340mm 340mm Weight 5.7kg 3.2kg 5.7kg 5.7kg Voltage 220-240 VAC single-phase; 50-60 Hz Circuit protection Short circuit protection by duty cycle fold-back with auto recovery Servo Control

Control modes Any connected input (load, strain, stroke, etc) or calculated variable Dual-Mode, Channel-Limited-Channel (such as load-limited displacement for specimen loading)

Tuning Fuzzy PID with forward loop filter. Control loops can be tuned manually or automatically

Load-cell input Excitation voltage DC +5V or +10V

Analog resolution 24bit

Load Accuracy 0.01% Analog Inputs voltage(Optional)

+/- 10V

Signal Processing

Input resolution 24 bit with over-sampling

Internal data sample rate 1,000Hz (simultaneous sample and hold on all analog inputs)

Sample update rate Simultaneous sample and hold, sampled at update rate: 100 – 1,000 Hz

Signal processing 24 bit floating point

Digital filters Selected 10~100Hz

Format Data transfer to ASCII, and Optionally to MOD-BUS format

Analog Outputs (optional)

Output voltage +/- 10 V

Maximum load 2000 ohm minimum, 1000 pF maximum

Output resolution 12 bit Environment Temp: 5-40 deg C; RH: 5-85%

Remote Controller This new remote controller displays the data and control the crosshead position It is available for all the NEXCADE controllers Characteristic of Remote controller Test set up Test condition set up

Setting the test parameter, load, displacement, rate, data acquisition rate

Limit level set up Conveniently move the crosshead to install and

replace a test specimens On line display of data Including Time, load, stress, displacement, strain and temperature Jog control Speed-sensitive thumbwheel for precise control Control the crosshead position Permits fine adjustments LCD Main Screen Multi-line text display

for easy viewing of system information Limit: Load, Displacement, Strain Easily view multiple signals 3.2” LCD Display

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HELIO 7 Software HELIO 7 software has been developed with various and complex research demands and test The software has flexibility to adapt to changing development requirements, simplicity and ease-of-use needed for product QA and QC testing quickly and efficiently HELIO 7 software is designed to intensified user ability to perform accurate and repeatable mechanical testing of materials and products. HELIO 7 software produces most complete test definition, execution and report generation capabilities. HELIO 7 software can be readily configured to perform monotonic and cyclic testing at both low- and high-force capacities, meet most ASTM, ISO, and DIN and perform other standard and custom tailored test HELIO 7 is powerful application software that enables user to easily automate test procedures. User can run test methods for tensile, compression, flexure, and other simple monotonic tests using this software. Also user can make easily test sequences, including any sequence of command generation and data acquisition. The flexibility of extending in data analysis helps user’s changed purpose. The software saves data from user’s tests in a standard form, allowing user to use favorite spreadsheet program or analysis package. These functions give user good flexibility in analyzing, plotting, and report on the achieved data. User can check the status of system and test result with graphical user interface and mouse-driven functions. It allows user to get and handle the data from displacement, time, load, and external input channels, as well as store test setup data with test results, thus user can easily determine how a test was processed and repeat it as desired.

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HELIO 7 software has the function of test condition setting, data analysis and reporting. ▪ Consist of 3 steps

Setting, Conducting, Analysis

▪ Standard Software package All monotonic testing software Tensile, compression, bending and shear test

▪ Advanced Software package ▪ n value(Hardening coefficient) S/W ▪ R value (Lankford plastic-strain ratio) S/W ▪ Creep test S/W ▪ Stress relaxation S/W ▪ Equibiaxial Flexural Strength S/W ▪ True strain rate control S/W

▪ Test start and stop function with external input (Remote controller-UART TTL Level)

▪ Return to start, Return to zero ▪ Auto moving to specified position

▪ Error message with wrong input ▪ Temperature monitoring and control ▪ Test setting and scheduler saving ▪ Indicator bar user edit ▪ Select the input data for true strain calculation ▪ User edited broken parameter channel and level ▪ User edited limit parameter (Add, Delete, Edit) ▪ Scheduler (Pre test, Test, Post test) Data acquisition & analysis functions ▪ Data storage rate Up to 1kHz ▪ Auto calculation of mechanical properties

UTS, YS, EL, PL, E, Elongation and etc ▪ Data saving form (Text, Excel(*.csv)) ▪ Data filtering method

(Average filter, Moving average filter) ▪ Multi specimen multi Graphing and average ▪ Data analysis of other tester’s data Display and Report functions ▪ Scheduling curve monitoring before test ▪ Interlock display ▪ Unit selection ▪ On-line plotting of all kind of data ▪ Load, Displacement, Strain data ▪ Data editing and auto Report

Convenient Pre-Packaged Test Methods As the versatility of software, user can make pre-packaged test software suitable to user’s purpose using the scheduling functions very easily. Including applications for: ▪ N, R for sheet metals ▪ Metals ▪ Plastics ▪ Cellular products ▪ Textiles ▪ Food ▪ Paper ▪ Adhesives ▪ Foam application ▪ Hysteresis ▪ Limited cyclic ▪ Creep and stress relaxation

R&B Reliability R&B will continue to support user with innovative, modular hardware solutions, and software to help meet all kind of user testing requirements. R&B is ISO 9001 certified, and R&B controller and application software packages are designed with user friendly and manufactured in accordance with ISO 9001 practices

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Design and specification can be changed for quality improvement RB 096-rev.2 PRINTED 01/2014 COPY RIGHT, R&B Inc.