Automatic extensometers are incorporated into the testing machine. The may be stored in safe area when not used.
Automatic extensometers allow for example to open the measuring arms just before the specimen rupture to avoid any user’s intervention during the test. They allow as well to automate sample setting operations to optimize the tests production rate.
There is many kinds of extensometers, each one with specific characteristics such as:
• Long stroke extensometers
• High precision extensometers
• Extensometers with motorized arms
• Digital measurement extensometers
• Etc.