Rolling resistance, fatigue testing, crack growth, tread testing, cord testing, composition analysis, automation, creep testing, HBU and Flexometer testing.
Get a QuoteDynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
DMA is used to measure various mechanical properties like viscoelastic properties, fatigue, glass transition, temperature and creep behaviour. The Metravib DMA has the broadest frequency and highest force on the market.
Metravib DMA+ 300, 1000, 2000
The Metravib DMA+ line represents the most advanced scientific design in dynamic mechanical analyzers. Higher forces, higher frequencies, higher sensitivities, more information, and better material characterization. That’s what Metravib provides, and what C-Therm is here to deliver.
C-Therm is the exclusive distributor and partner for Metravib DMA in the United States and Canada. If you’re ready to discuss, so are we.
Not a Traditional DMA
For many elastomer and composite researchers, viscoelastic properties are vital material performance characteristics. For many labs, the window of data is so small that they rely on extrapolation, super-positioning, and temperature-frequency master curves to make assumptions about their materials.
These problems arise in materials with extremely high modulus changes. When the stiffness change is drastic, most instruments cannot detect this entire range. This leads to further assumptions being made about the materials and introduces a great amount of risk in the development and reporting of mechanical properties.
Furthermore, the data they are seeing is smoothed by software to make up for the lack of sensitivity in the equipment. This sets a dangerous precedent; how can you be truly confident in your data when you’re seeing such a small and distorted piece of the picture?
Metravib is Different
The solution lies in getting access to a wider range of your material’s response, a larger window frame looking into the viscoelastic properties of polymers and elastomers. With a higher frequency range, our master curves are more accurate. With access to the raw data, you are seeing the true curve, not smoothed ones, and by having a higher force range and auto control, you can see up to 7 decades of modulus change in a single experiment.
The Metravib DMA+ series is the only line to offer fully integrated and highly functional automation through Xpander. You can run your system 24/7 without human intervention.
Why Metravib is the Best DMA
Innovative Design
High-rigidity-one-piece mechanical frame ensures the accurate measurement of the specimen viscoelastic characteristics because the deformation measured corresponds to the material specimen and not to the mechanical test frame. Air bearing and electrodynamic shaker technology unlocks excitation amplitude capabilities are optimized at high frequency because there is no friction, no suspension stiffness and continuous ventilation of the gap body.
Built with Users
Due to specific developments made for elastomer customers to deal with their nonlinear mechanical behavior, specific functions have been developed and improved to match with the growing expectations of scientists and engineers. These functions represent major benefits for performing advanced testing of a large variety of polymer and advanced materials.
Highest Force Range
Force range: 300, 1000, 2000 Newtons (peak to peak) allows users to extend their testing capabilities and have a larger diversity of specimen geometries.
Multiple Tests, One Instrument
DMA, high frequency, creep, stress relaxation, fatigue, crack growth, calorimetry modes on a single instrument. Broad selection of specimen holders for multiple specimen geometries and dimensions.
Largest Frequency Range
Frequency range from 0.00001 Hz to 1000Hz . The high rigidity mechanical frame design implies testing capabilities over an extended frequency range; an additional accelerometer measures continuously the acceleration measured on the test frame. Master curves computation using equivalence frequency/temperature law make it possible to use the data over an extended frequency range from the original testing range.
Powerful Software & Experimental Control
Simultaneous static and dynamic control with combined scanning on temperature ramps (temperature/strain/stress) up to 3 in one single test.
Efficient auto control mode to switch from strain/displacement to stress/force control automatically. This makes it possible for a continuous test over a huge range of modulus (up to 7 decades).
Full trace-ability of test conditions because you have access to the real data points.
Applications
Polymer Composites & Advanced Materials
Curing studies, glass transition, Fatigue testing, long term creep prediction, environmental effects, crack growth.
Get a QuoteSports Goods
For several years, the use of DMA instruments has been democratised in the sports field in order to develop increasingly high-performance articles, of which shoe soles are the most representative example.
Get a QuoteMedical and Biomaterials
Aging studies, immersion testing, exact geometries, custom excitations, fatigue testing, shear for films, pastes, and liquids.
Get a QuoteAerospace and Defense
Glass Transition, fatigue testing, creep testing, master curve analysis, 3-points bending, exact geometries, resin setting, shear for films, pastes and liquids.
Get a QuoteResources
- Metravib DMA+ Brochure
- The Importance of Using High-Force Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) for Accurate Material Characterization
- DMA 101: Dynamic Mechanical Analysis for Viscoelastic Properties
- Material Characterization in the Development of Advanced Defense Subsystems
- Measuring Damping Performance using a High-Frequency Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
- Innovations in Crack Growth Fatigue Testing for Polymer Composites and Rubber to be Presented
- Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) to Develop Sustainable Tires
- How to Measure Fatigue Crack Growth Propagation
- Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) to Find the Glass Transition Temperature of a Golf Ball
- DMA Performance Testing of Asphalt: Application of Waste Cooking Oil as Additive
- Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) to Describe Rubber Tire Performance
- Why You Should Consider Frequency When Testing Rubbers and Polymers with Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
- Using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis to Evaluate Shoe Floor Friction Performance
- Innovations In Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
- Automated DMA for Increased Productivity
- DMA For Composite Testing
- Innovations in Crack Growth Testing with DMA
- Rubber Performance Validation Through Crack Growth Testing
- Thermal and Elastic Performance of Footwear
- High Performance Rubber Characterization Innovations in Test and Measurements
Over 50 Years of DMA Excellence
Metravib celebrated it’s 50th year in business in 2019 and is maintaining its title as the most trusted DMA in the world. Companies like Michelin, Goodyear, Cooper Tire, BD Medical, Aditya Birla, and countless more trust Metravib to supply, support, service, and innovate for next-generation material characterization. With over 500 instruments in operation globally, the top polymer and rubber researchers rely on Metravib to deliver the entire material picture.
International Standards
The Metravib DMA adheres to various international standards listed below:
ISO 4664 – Rubber, vulcanized or thermoplastic — Determination of dynamic properties.
ISO 6721 – Plastics — Determination of dynamic mechanical properties
ASTM D4065 – Plastics DMA: Standard Practice for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: Determination and Report of Procedures
ASTM D5023 – DMA testing: Standard Test Method for Measuring the Dynamic Mechanical Properties: In Flexure (Three-Point Bending)
ASTM D5024 – Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: In Compression
ASTM D5026 – Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: In Tension
ASTM D5418 – Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: In Flexure (Dual Cantilever Beam)
ASTM D5992 – Rubber testing: Standard Guide for Dynamic Testing of Vulcanized Rubber and Rubber-Like Materials Using Vibratory Methods
ASTM D7028 – Standard Test Method for Glass Transition Temperature (DMA Tg) of Polymer Matrix Composites by Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
ASTM E1640 – DMA testing: Standard Test Method for Assignment of the Glass Transition Temperature By Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
ASTM D623 – Plastics DMA: Standard Practice for Plastics: Heat Generation and Flexing Fatigue In Compression
ISO 4666 – Rubber, vulcanized — Determination of temperature rise and resistance to fatigue in flexometer testing
ISO 27727 – Rubber, vulcanized – Measurement of fatigue crack growth rate