L.G.P. Intl. New Analytical Instruments Helps Designing Precision Materials

New materials should meet many requirements for each particular application. Success in development materials designed "precisely" for optics, medicine, health care, aerospace, and other applications depends on how easy, and accurately one can measure their key physical characteristics.

A new universal platform for building analytical instruments for glass science and technology has been developed, and tested by L.G.P. Intl.. The platform has up to 36 channels to receive signals from various sensors (temperature, radiation, displacement, force, vibration, pressure, etc.), up 12 channels (controllers) to control all functions plus up to 8 channels to control power supply. Thus the developers can add more periferal devices to the system over the time.

The advantages of using the platform are:
to make the devices easy to use;
to provide accuracy typical for top-end analytical instruments;
to make the best data collection and treatment algorythms available;
to have all-included in the package (the hardware, the software, the disposable materials, the on-line technical support in use, service, check analysis, data treatment, data validation;
to have an attractive price-tag.

Types of analytical testing devices working on the base of new L.G.P. platform:

1. CTE (coefficient of thermal expansion), density, structural relaxation parameters, and DVA (differential volumetric analysis) by low-load precision (differential) dilatometer. This unique device has built-in reference sample.
2. Viscosity, visco-elastic deformation under various types of loads, stress relaxation by universal relaxometer. This device has many types, and regimes of loading-unloading. It comes with accessories to measure deformation under tensile, compression, bending, and twisting loads.
3. Precise position of phase transition points in metals, ceramics, slags, glasses, and other materials by high-resolution DTA analyser. The device uses low-noise precise temperature measurements and control approach, whoich allows to get resolution of the temperature recording not worse than 300 nV.
4. Absorption, reflection, and emission spectra of glasses, metals, melts, ceramics, etc. at up to 1650oC by rapid-scan portable spectrophotometer. Supplied with high-quality leucosapphire optics combined with adjustable time-temperature regimes of testing for different types of materials, the device allows studying optical properties of glasses, melts, and other materials with minimal influence of irreversible changes.
5. Characteristics of heat exchannge by radiation (emissivity, thermal conductivity, and free path length) in transparent, semi-transparent, and opaque materials by using miniature zonal NIR analyzer. L.G.P. NIR analyser utilises L.G.P. original multi-wave registration approach with inteligently extended linearity, so the dynamic range. In combination with super fast scanning the device allows obtaining all essential characteristics of many conventional, and advanced materials seconds after the initial analytical signal is recorded. Thus the data are ready for use as input data in computer models right away.

Applications:

The set of devices presented above allows to equipt analytical laboratory for rapid, and accurate characterization of physical properties of various inorganic materials (glasses, ceramics, metal alloys). The devices have unified modular design to allow easy operation, service, and repair.

Note: the custom-made versions of the devices are often cheaper than regular ones as they may include only those specific features requested by the Customer.

Depending on specific requirements of the Customers, the units can be provided in "regular" (high accuracy, portable, rapid) or "light" (right accuracy, miniature, quick) versions.

Ordering

To discuss ordering regular or custom-made versions, please, contact Oleg Prokhorenko.
E-mail: olegus@core.com or oleg_lgp@mail.ru

L.G.P. International LLC is a research company providing services in the following areas:
1. Precise measurements of physical properties of glasses and melts
2. Building analytical instruments for glass science and technology
3. Development of new high-performance glass compositions
4. Development of computer modeling software for glass industry

Oleg A. Prokhorenko
L.G.P. International, LLC; 37000 Grand River Avenue, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48335 U.S.A.
olegus@core.com

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