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

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

 

Load cell 100 kN

ILC Force 2023:3

Load cell 100 kN

A reference laboratory will be used

Start: March 2026

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.