An engineer asked to perform some rough testing on 6061 Aluminum parts I'm fabricating. The setup should be relatively simple, I have to pull this part apart and see how much force it takes to deform it and make it fail. My idea is to fabricate a rig with steel tubing and use a porta-power pull-back ram while filming the process from a couple of different angles, and measuring the pressure with a good quality digital gauge. This should make it easy to calculate the force applied at any given time. However this assumes I know very well the size of the hydraulic piston. This is a pull-back ram and it might be more complicated than just measuring a diameter. I have placed an order for one of these rams and it's going to take a couple of days before I get it.
Anybody has any advice on what I am getting into with this?
Any advice? Thanks!
Anybody has any advice on what I am getting into with this?
Any advice? Thanks!