Grips and Fixtures

The infinite variety of materials, specimens and applications together with the continual advance of materials science puts ever-greater demands on grips and fixtures. Where our range of standard products doesn't meet your needs, you can rely on our specialist engineers to provide a solution.

Needle Sharpness Test Fixture	Indirect tension test fixture for asphalt	Biaxial Ioscipescu shear fixture for composite materials
Axial and circumferential extensometer-rock mechanics tests	Tensile grips for geotextiles	Curved needle test fixture for tests on sutures
Comb fixture used for evaluating hair-care products	Fracture toughness fixture for tests on wheat and other cereal crops	Erichsen fixture for assessing deep drawing properties of sheet metal
Bi-axial tension-torsion grips and extensometer	Hydraulic side-acting grips for tests on large diameter seven strand wire rope	Prosthetic knee implant fixture (Courtesy of Southampton University,UK)
Leaf-spring test fixture	Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue (TMF) grips with induction heater and extensometer	Grips for tensile tests on optical fibers
Shear test fixture for textile floor coverings	Syringe test fixture	Dual-station hip simulator with four axes of physiological motion
FastJaw grips, puncture probe, and Charpy fixture for use with special high rate test systems	Special tensile fixture to test the weld strength of wire grids	Flexure fixture with deflectometer to test ceramic tiles
Custom torsion fixture used to test twist-style biomedical devices	Special compression fixturing used for soil exudation testing	Large fastener holders used for fatigue testing aerospace fasteners
Soft tissue grips for biomedical applications	Hydraulic Wedge Grips for use at high and low temperatures	Large bend fixture attached to hydraulic side-acting grips
Bone compression fixture with deflection measurement	Grips for tensile tests on natural and synthetic rope