Tile bending machine

Client presentation

Our client is an important manufacturer for terrace and slanted roofs covering and sealing solution.

Tested product: tiles

Tiles are small plates used to cover the roof of a building. They are often made of terracotta but can sometimes be made of concrete or cement. They can be sold under different forms (plates, relief, curved, etc.). They seal roofs.

Double tile

Curved tile

Cement concrete tile

Objective

Conceive a test bench ensuring programmable bending tests up to product’s breaking point.

Problematic

Creating a compact testing machine to facilitate its transport and that has intuitive setting commands to launch automatic cycles.

Solution

LF Technologies engineers thought about a compact machine, easily transportable and very simple to use.

The bending test bench makes bending tests on tiles with progressive strength optimised up to breaking point or maximum strength programmed by the operator up to 10 000 N.).

The operator can set the gap between the two support points according to the product to be tested (tile, tiling, glass, earthenware, etc.)

Progressive precision tile