Design and Experimental Study of a 6-DOF Material Testing Machine

Abstract:

A six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) parallel material testing machine (PMTM), which is based on Stewart Platform, is first proposed in this paper. Several essential issues including prototyping, compliant axis determination and controller design are investigated with specific methods or technologies. The compliant axis, along which the proposed machine has a better performance, is determined by the eigenscrew decomposition method. The proposed force controller incorporates the simplified inverse dynamic model output as a model-based portion of the controller and its validity is verified by means of simulations. Evaluation tests are performed to examine the practicability of the proposed controller and to determine the loading accuracy of the PMTM. Tensile tests and preliminary multiaxial loading tests are performed to verify the performance of the proposed PMTM. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed PMTM is capable of performing multiaxial loading tests of materials and thus a suitable candidate for multiaxial material testing machine.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 419)
• Pages: 533-542
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.419.533
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Dan Wang, Rui Fan, Jiang Zhen Guo, Wu Yi Chen, Yong Sheng Sun
• Keywords: Compliant Axis, Material Test, Multiaxial Material Testing Machine, Parallel Robot

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