Brookfield Engineering introduces the YR-1 rheometer, a low-cost instrument for measuring yield stress in fluids and semi-solids.
The YR-1 enables the user to measure materials yield value quickly and easily.
The user selects a test, lowers the vane spindle into the product, presses GO, and the instrument displays the result in a single shear stress number.
The YR-1 is a low-cost alternative to complicated, full-featured laboratory rheometers.
It can be used by your technicians right on the production floor for rapid QC testing with high repeatability.
It is suitable for materials ranging from low to high viscosity, from juice with pulp to shortening.
Typical applications include: greases, screen printing inks, creams and icings, polymers and some personal care products.
The YR-1 comes with EZ-Yield software, which allows simple data collection on a PC.
EZ-Yield allows you to set up 10 different test programs with an easy-to-use test parameter menu, which can be downloaded and stored in the YR-1.
Streaming data can be viewed in EZ-Yield and test data (torque versus time and stress versus strain) is displayed in both tabular and graphical formats.
The YR-1 rheometer also comes with two vane spindles (V-72 and V-73) and a carrying case.
Several additional vane spindles are also available.
