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Abrasion is a common mechanical process on surfaces caused by scuffing, rubbing, or scratching under normal use or environmental exposure. The product with abrasion leads to the undesirable disturbance of its functionality, quality perception and value. Fingertip and hand abrasion is a specific type of abrasion due to the intensive interaction between the products and human fingertips or hands. This special abrasion leads to distinct patterns of damages on the materials and its surfaces.
ABREX®-ABRASION, namely soft-chemo-mechanical fingertip & hand abrasion, is a highly complex abrasion process which involves:
ABREX® is by far the only testing machine which can simulate this complex abrasion with different standard textiles under different chemical environments.
Furthermore, other tests can be also performed with the standard ABREX® and with a high-speed ABREX®-E, including:
In addition, all tests can be applied either on a lab sample or on a finished product with the testing temperature ranging from -40°C to +85°C.
ABREX® is currently the world standard machine for evaluating the abrasion resistance, dynamic scratch resistance of the material and coatings. It has been referenced in numerous standards and specifications including plastics, coatings, laminates, leather, paper, ceramics, glass, etc.).
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ABREX® Standard |
ABREX®-E |
ABREX®-C |
ABREX®-CE |
Load |
1-20 N |
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Friction path |
4-40 mm |
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Abrasion Speed |
60±5 mm/s |
60±5 mm/s |
60±5 mm/s |
60±5 mm/s |
Scratch Speed |
60±5 mm/s |
20 ± 2 cm/s & 70 ± 5 cm/s acc.
to GS 97034-2 for fingernail test |
60±5 mm/s |
20 ± 2 cm/s & 70 ± 5 cm/s acc.
to GS 97034-2 for fingernail test |
Cycles |
1-10,000,000 |
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Test Piston |
20 mm Standard |
20 mm Standard |
both 10 mm & 20 mm for three temperature range: -40℃-0℃, 0℃-30℃, 30℃-85℃ |
both 10 mm & 20 mm for three temperature range: -40℃-0℃, 0℃-30℃, 30℃-85℃
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Fluid feed |
Automatic, Manual |
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Fabric feed |
Automatic, Feed adjustable |
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Power supply |
230 V, 50 Hz or 110 V, 60 Hz |
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Compressed |
4 bar,external,oil-free,water-free |
Simulation of typical scratch tests with industrial tips. Supplied with both 45° & 90° sample fixing modules.
Simulation of typical scratch and mar tests with human fingernail (PMMA) at different speeds. Supplied with 45° sample fixture. Test acc. to BMW GS97034-2.
Simulation of abrasion between shoe sole and the auto trim with high speeds acc. to BMW GS97034-3.
Simulation of the general abrasion for floor, carpet, ceramics.
Generation of a standardized fingerprint on the surface (eg. touch screen, glossy piano paint) followed by a cleanability test on ABREX® to test how easily the fingerprint is cleaned by microfiber cloth.
A complete car or truck steering wheel mounting on ABREX® for the simulation of ABREX®- abrasion and other scratch tests without cutting the lab samples. The steering wheel can be any size from automotive, trucks and omnibuses.
This adapter enables a complete car or truck steering wheel mounting on ABREX®, and additionally the TRACEiT® can be fixed onto the top of the adapter to provide an easy measurement of the abrasion rate and surface roughness, topography, structure and visual impression in a mobile fast fashion.
A specially designed sample mounting adapter with a certain curvature enables the simulation of ABREX® -abrasion and other tests directly on a banknote with standard fabric, soiling fabric under both dry and wet condition.
Limpness is referred as the banknote paper is less stiff due to the frequent handling. Limpness is normally correlates with soiling and structural deterioration, which results in a marded lack of stiffness. A specially designed adapter for ABREX® enables the simulation the abrasion between the banknotes for evaluation of the limpness.
A specially designed adapter to simulate the tooth abrasion for testing the durability of tooth replacement materials. The materials of abrasion counterpart can be customized.
A sample holder is designed with easy handling in both X & Y directions. An additional counter is supplied for better location of the sample.
Artificial Sweat acc. to:
Additional Fluids:
Supply of standard piston/stamp with the diameter of 10 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm. Additionally, different piston/stamp will be especially made for different temperature ranges depending on the model of ABREX®:
Supply of standard weight to run acc. to various standards and specifications: