SYNTIUM Custom-Built Universal Testing Machines

Can’t find what you’re looking for in our “off the shelf” range? Our SYNTIUM range is where we work with 3R’s engineering department to design a 100% customised Universal Testing Machine (UTM) to your specific testing requirements or particular constraints.

Our combined expertise includes high-rigidity compression, flexural, and tensile testing machines, all specifically developed to meet demanding and non-standard testing requirements,

They can be equipped with a wide variety of fixtures and supports, enabling bending, compression, and tensile tests on complex materials, large specimens, and full-scale structures.

Fully Customised Universal / Tensile Testing Machine Systems

The mechanical components, controller, and software of SYNTIUM machines are based on the proven and reliable elements of the SYNTECH standard range, ensuring consistency, robustness, and long-term reliable and repeatable testing.

To tailor the machine to your application, we will take into account the following:

Overall dimensions.
Test space configuration.
Tooling and fixtures.
Ergonomics.
Rigidity.
Speed.
Measurement precision.

Benefits Of The Syntium Range

Completely bespoke UTM built to align with your unique material analysis demands.
Test speed developed on request.
PC control with QuantX software.
Axial stiffness equivalent to 2 to 3 times the machine capacity (kN/mm).
Stroke lengths of 1500 mm, 2000 mm, and beyond.
2 or 4 guiding columns with diameters greater than 100 mm.
Fully rigid transmission — no chains, no belts.
Incorporate Rigi-Drive technology, enabling extremely precise control without risk of vibration phenomena at high and medium speeds, and ensuring displacement regularity at low speeds.
Oversized frame, combined with a fully rigid transmission with reduced play, significantly limits the energy stored and released during brittle fractures of high-modulus materials
Enables measurement of deformations on flexible materials or structures where the use of an extensometer is difficult.

Example Builds From The Syntium Range

Composite

Frame:	Oversized 500kN machine with spherical platen 1400mm x 1400mm and stroke 1500mm.
Location:	Nantes
Test types:	Tests on fluid accumulators for civil engineering.
Special features:	Oversized machine with high stiffness for exceptional precision in strain measurement without using an extensometer.

Foundry

Frame:	Testing machine with chamber width and depth of 1500 x1500mm, stroke 700mm, with grooved table and motorized transverse movement of the load sensor.
Location:	Pont-à-Mousson
Test Types:	Tests on manhole covers according to the new EN 124.
Special Features:	No manual handling by the operator thanks to motorized axes enabling forces to be applied at any point on the structure. Non-contact 4-point measurement by lasers (integrated into the software).

Rope And Textile

Frame:	400kN testing machine with chamber width and depth of 1500mm x 1500mm, stroke 3500mm.
Location:	Malaysia
Test types:	Full-scale tests on harnesses and climbing equipment, with dummies.
Special features:	High energy stored during tests generating product failures that can exceed the speed of sound (ropes). Specific protection with energy absorbers implemented.