Digital Pull off Adhesion Tester PsiaTester
Coatings & Industry > Mechanical properties > Adhesion & Elongation
343-JR 500 Digital Pull-off Adhesion Tester is a portable, hand-operated instrument which is used to measure the force required to pull a specified test diameter of coating away from its substrate using hydraulic pressure.
The pressure is displayed on a digital LCD and represents the coating’s strength of adhesion to the substrate.
It evaluates the adhesion (pull-off strength) of a coating by determining the greatest tensile pull-off force that it can bear before detaching.
Breaking points, demonstrated by fractured surfaces, occur along the weakest plane within the system consisting of dolly, adhesive, coating layers and substrate.
The pull-off adhesion, measures the amount of tensile stress to pull the coating off the substrate.
A dolly is glued to the coating surface, after the glue is cured, a testing apparatus is attached to the loading fixture and aligned to apply tension perpendicular to the test surface.
The force applied is gradually increased and monitored until either a plug of coating material is detached, or a specified value is reached.
Two units (MPa and psi)for selection and can be converted automatically.
JR 500 Digital Pull-off adhesion Tester conforms to ASTM D 4541, ASTM D 7234, EN 13144, ISO 4624, ISO 16276 etc.