Nanomechanical testing software

Agilent Technologies has released a more powerful version of its NanoSuite software package (formerly known as TestWorks). Designed for use with the company’s line of nanoindentation and tensile-testing instruments, NanoSuite 5.0 software offers advanced features such as enhanced imaging capabilities, survey scanning and a new test method development environment. All NanoSuite 5.0 functions have been optimised to help researchers run tests and manage data with speed and ease.

NanoSuite 5.0 provides a wide array of enhanced imaging capabilities, including profile cross-sectional imaging, real-time adjustment of scanning parameters, polynomial distortion or levelling correction, plane-fit levelling and an expanded colour palette. For scanning of areas up to 500 x 500 µm, NanoSuite 5.0 offers a survey scanning option. Flatness of travel is 0.1% per 100 µm. This option is suitable for scratch-and-wear testing on large samples. It is also very useful for working with large samples that have irregular shapes, large samples composed of heterogeneous materials and various metals, ceramics and hard-coated materials.

The Explorer version of NanoSuite 5.0 enables researchers to write their own test methods via a new, easier-to-use, method-creation protocol that reduces the lines of code needed for customised test development.