PVC MATERIAL TESTING

1) Place PVC material in hot press machine at 177°C for 10 minutes.

2) After 10 minutes of hot pressing turn of the heating and allow the sample to cool down for at
least 1 hour.
3) Remove the sample from the hot press machine and punch out 3 dumb-bell samples.
4) Mark 25mm on the dumb-bell samples and the cross-sectional area of each dumb-bell are
recorded.
5) Fix the dumb-bell samples to the tensile strength and elongation tester and run the test.
6) The maximum force withstand by the dumb-bell samples are recorded down for the tensile
strength calculation.
7) The percentage of elongation of the dumb-bell are also measured and recorded down.

Tensile strength (N/mm2) = Max Force (N)

Cross sectional area (mm2)

Elongation (%) = Final length-Initial length x 100

Initial length