ELECTRONIC DILATOMETERS

Orton dilatometers are designed to measure the dimensional
changes of ceramics, glasses, metals, carbon composites, cermets,
minerals, and polymers as a function of temperature. The dilatometer
records reversible and irreversible changes in length (expansion and
shrinkage) during heating and cooling. Samples are measured for
determining firing ranges and firing schedules, measuring thermal
expansion ranges for glaze fits, and measuring thermal expansion
ranges for R&D, QC or product certification. Orton standard
dilatometers are used for ASTM E-228, C-372, and other testing
procedures to measure the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE),
softening point, glass transition temperature, curie point, crystalline
transformation, phase transition, shrinkage, warping, bloating,
sintering rate, isothermal creep, stress relaxation.