US 12,241,873 B2
Dynamic autoclave testing system
Mitchell Z. Dziekonski, Stafford, TX (US)
Assigned to Mitchell Z. Dziekonski, Stafford, TX (US)
Filed by Mitchell Z. Dziekonski, Stafford, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/730,652.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/185,496, filed on May 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0357253 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 3/12 (2006.01); G01N 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 3/12 (2013.01) [G01N 3/20 (2013.01); G01N 2203/0202 (2013.01); G01N 2203/0274 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A testing apparatus comprising:
an elongated chamber in which a sample may be secured, the chamber being sealable to capture a fluid environment therein the elongated chamber comprising a fixed chamber and a movable or flexible chamber, the fixed chamber and the movable or flexible chamber being sealingly jointed to one another;
a framework in which the fixed and the movable or flexible chambers are secured to support the chambers and to resist loading applied to the chambers during testing;
a pressurizing system that, in operation, creates a desired pressure the fluid environment within the elongated chamber in which the sample is secured;
a thermal system that, in operation, creates a desired temperature in the fluid environment within the elongated chamber in which the sample is secured;
a first loading system that, in operation, imposes a tensile or compressive load on the sample via the elongated chamber; and
a second loading system that, in operation, imposes a bending load on the sample via the elongated chamber;
wherein testing of the sample may comprise any combination or all of desired fluid environment, temperature, tensile and/or compressive load, and tensile load.