MTS Series 793 Application - Manual (Page 154)

MTS MultiPurpose TestWare®
Plan Your Test
Creating a Practice Test Procedure 154
Plan Your Test
To plan your test, you should:
• Identify test objectives and significant test information.
• Review the test environment.
The following sample test objectives are used throughout this section to show
how they affect the selection, triggering, and definition of individual processes in
the sample test.
1. Identify the test objectives.
For this sample test, we want to:
A. Ramp to 3000 N in force control.
B. Apply a sinusoidal force input of ±1000 N at 1 Hz, for 100 cycles to
fatigue the physical specimen.
C. Return to 0 N in force control.
During the test, we also want to:
A. Acquire peak/valley data while the physical specimen is being
fatigued.
B. Activate and deactivate an external fan to keep the physical specimen’s
temperature between 50–75ºC.