Tensile testing machine and method for controlling tensile testing machine

A tensile testing machine that executes a tensile test by applying a test force to a test target, the tensile testing machine comprising:

• a processor, a load cell, a memory and a striking structure, wherein
• the processor is configured to determine a timing at which a striking force is applied to a tensile testing machine body;
• the striking structure has a steel ball or an impact hammer that applies the striking force to the tensile testing machine body at the timing determined by the processor;
• the processor is further configured to:
• detect a vibration of the tensile testing machine body generated by the striking force;
• calculate a natural frequency of the tensile testing machine on a basis of a detection result of the processor;
• execute the tensile test;
• and
• record information indicating a test result of the tensile test in association with information indicating the natural frequency, wherein
• the timing is either before or after the tensile testing machine executes the tensile test;
• wherein
• the tensile test is a test which breaks the test target,
• the processor is further configured to detect convergence of a vibration of the tensile testing machine body caused by breakage of the test target, wherein
• the timing comes after the tensile testing machine executes the tensile test, and
• the processor determines the timing to be a timing in response to the processor detecting the convergence of the vibration of the tensile testing machine body,
• wherein the memory stores a predetermined amplitude,
• the processor is configured to:
• retrieve the predetermined amplitude,
• compare an amplitude of the vibration of the test force detected by the load cell with the predetermined amplitude, and
• perform striking in response to the amplitude of the vibration of the test force becoming equal to or less than the predetermined amplitude.

A method for controlling a tensile testing machine that executes a tensile test by applying a tensile force to a test target, wherein

• the tensile testing machine includes a processor, a memory and a striking structure having a steel ball or an impact hammer that applies a striking force to a tensile testing machine body, the method comprising:
• determining a timing at which the striking force is applied to the tensile testing machine body by the processor;
• applying the striking force to the tensile testing machine body by the striking structure at the timing determined by the processor in the determining;
• detecting a vibration of the tensile testing machine generated by the striking force by the processor;
• calculating a natural frequency of the tensile testing machine on a basis of a detection result in the detecting by the processor;
• executing the tensile test by the processor;
• and
• recording information indicating a test result of the tensile test in association with information indicating the natural frequency by the processor, wherein the timing is either before or after the tensile testing machine executes the tensile test,
• wherein the processor is further configured to receive an input from a user giving an instruction on execution of the tensile test,
• wherein the timing comes before the tensile testing machine executes the tensile test,
• the processor determines the timing at which the striking force is applied to the tensile testing machine body during a time interval between a first time and a second time,
• wherein the first time is a time at which a test start button of the tensile testing machine is operated and is a time point at which the input from the user gives the instruction on execution of the tensile test, and the second time is a time at which a natural frequency measurement process of the natural frequency is started, and
• the processor executes the tensile test after the processor calculates the natural frequency,
• wherein the tensile test is started when an amplitude of the vibration of the tensile testing machine body becomes equal to or less than a predetermined amplitude.