Fatigue Testing

Fatigue testing unit for medical prothesis

MF designed and manufactured in-house its own fatigue test units. The first unit already passed 1'000'000'000 cycles !!
Several machines are available offering a large testing capacity.  
These machines allow to perform fatigue tests simultaneoulsy on 16 prothesis, with different and individual loads.

 

Zoom on a fatigue testing for a prothesis

The machines are NC controlled, and the data are computerized. The machine stops as soon as the data collected are out of the specifications, for example due to a failure on a part.

Calibration references up to 1500kg are used to verify the accuracy of the measuring gauges. 

Screen shot of real-time measures for fatigue testing