Testing of high-temperature alloys has been notoriously difficult, they are often expensive, consist of rare materials and are extremely difficult to machine. Seeing the need for a corresponding testing machine that can accurately characterize their material properties, KASON has developed the original concept of an Electro-Thermal Mechanical Testing System (ETMT) in conjunction with National Physical Laboratory (NPL) over 10 years ago and has now brought the ETMT onto the ElectroPuls platform, offering an integrated ETMT system that is designed to test miniaturized test piece at elevated temperature. 

Over the last 10 years, users of KASON ETMT have made great progress into exploring its applications further and developed new test methods that utilize the unique features of the ETMT, while providing feedback to KASON for innovation of new features. Understanding how material properties of miniaturized test piece will translate to a real size sample is of utmost importance in validating the data generated by the ETMTs. In light of that, a good practice guide has been produced for the ETMT systems that shed light onto the investigations ETMT users have conducted and how they impact ETMT’s prospective users, making ETMT more accessible to new users.