♦ Combining different parameters to observe mechanical characteristics of material:
Frequency Scan
Temperature/Time Scan
Stress Relaxation
Stress-Strain
Creep
♦ Obtain key material characteristics by different analysis models:
Storage Modulus, E’
Loss Modulus, E”
Tan Delta
Young’s Modulus
Transition Temperature
What need DMA?
By applying different factors, including temperature, force, frequency, and deformation, the Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) can give us the information of materials such as strength, viscosity, elasticity, and various phase transition. Then we can achieve useful characteristic factors like Tan delta, storage modulus (E’), loss modulus (E”), Young’s modulus (E), and shear modulus (G).