Interlaboratory comparison on
force, torque, hardness and related areas
UTM force machine 10 kN
Position of the beam
Speed of the beam
Extensometer
ILC Force 2024:2
UTM force machine 10 kN (tension and compression)
Position of the beam (0-1000 mm)
Speed of the beam (1 to 500 speed mm/min)
Extensometer (gauge length 500 mm)
Reference values will be used.
You may choose up to which point you will calibrate.
Start: Week 47 and 48, 2025
Site Borås, Sweden at company Elastocon AB, Tvinnargatan 25 507 30 Brämhult/Borås
Report
SHORE A
SHORE D
SHORE AM
IRHD
ILC Hardness 2024:1
SHORE A
SHORE D
SHORE AM
IRHD
Consensus value will be used
Start: September 2026
Description will be published May 2026
Preliminary
2000 kN
ILC Force 2024:1
Load cell/ force transducer 2000 kN
A reference laboratory will be used.
Start: October 2026
Registration
Load cell 100 kN
ILC Force 2023:3
Load cell 100 kN
A reference laboratory will be used
Start: March 2026
Registration
Brinell
Vickers
Rockwell
ILC Hardness 2023:2
Consensus or reference values will be used
Start: September 2026
Description will be published soon
Preliminary
Torque
ILC Torque 2023:1
A reference laboratory will be used
Start: April 2026
Description and registration will be published soon
Preliminary
Load cells
1000N
100N
ILC Force 2022:3
Load cells 100N and 1000N
A reference laboratory will be used
The report part 3 is not published because of secrecy reasons as only one laboratory participated.
Start: March 2023
Report
Force machine 8 MN
Force machine 500 kN
ILC Force 2022:2
Force machine 8 MN
Force machine 500 kN
Extensometer gauge length 25 mm
Consensus values will be used
You may choose up to which point you will calibrate and if you only want to do compression
Site Stockholm, Sweden
Report
Force
ILC Force 2022:1
Force calibration tensile and compression 2,5 kN (ISO 7500-1:2018)
Range 250 – 2500 N compression and extension
Extensometer calibration (EN ISO 9513:2012)
Range 1 mm – 50 mm
Observe: You do not need to calibrate all levels
Consensus values will be used
Start: May 2022
Report
Please inform us if you are interested in any of these fields.
We are now also prepared to arrange intercomparisons in different areas where there is no service available now in Europe.
Please send a request to us through e-mail hakan.kallgren@smquality.se and we will see how we may support you.
