Vacuum Furnace Chamber for High-Temperature Testing | SINOTEST

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Vacuum Furnace Chamber for High-Temperature Testing | SINOTEST

SINOTEST’s vacuum furnace chamber systems are engineered for precision high-temperature material testing in demanding research and industrial environments. Specifically designed for applications such as tensile, compression, bending, and creep-fatigue testing, these systems support test temperatures up to 3000℃ under controlled vacuum conditions. In addition, our vacuum furnace chamber lineup includes radiant, induction, and electric heating configurations, enabling tailored solutions for metals, ceramics, composites, and advanced alloys. Furthermore, every vacuum heating system complies with rigorous international standards—including ASTM E139 and ISO 204—ensuring reliable, repeatable results in accredited laboratories. Since developing its first high-temperature vacuum creep testing machine in 1984, SINOTEST has continued to advance environmental test chamber technology for applications ranging from nuclear fusion to spacecraft materials. Consequently, these vacuum furnace chamber solutions are widely adopted by research institutions and industrial quality control facilities that require unmatched thermal uniformity, contamination-free heating, and precise temperature regulation.

High-Temperature Furnaces are ideal for a wide variety of high-temperature tests, including tension, compression, bend and fatigue testing of metals, composites, ceramics and many other materials. The furnaces have a user-friendly design that helps operators perform setup tasks more quickly – without compromising test quality or accuracy.

Vacuum chamber is an industrial furnace that uses a vacuum system to discharge substances inside the chamber. The chamber pressure is reduced to below standard atmospheric pressure through components such as vacuum pumps, measuring devices, and valves. It can be directly heated by electric resistance furnace wires (such as tungsten wires) or by high-frequency induction heating, with a heating capacity up to 3000 ℃.

Application: Aviation, engines, turbines, nuclear industry, special alloys

Standard: ASTM E139, ISO 204, ISO20392, EN2002-005, ASTM E1457, ASTM E2714, ASTM E2760, ASTM D2290, ASTM D2291, ASTM D2294, GOST 1497, GOST 9651, GOST 3248

Heating System

Temperature chamber up to +350℃

This chamber is suitable for test temperature from -75℃ to +350℃.

3-Zone Vacuum Furnace Chamber up to 1200℃

With this furnace, it is suitable for tensile, creep, creep compression test.

Vacuum Furnace Chamber up to 2000℃

This vacuum systems is applicable for tests like tension, compression, flexture.

Heating Method

Radiant Heating

Induction Heating

Electric Heating

Application Field

In material mechanics performance testing, the ultra-high temperature and special environment simulation test system, namely the high-temperature vacuum (inflatable environment, etc.) test device, is mainly used in national defense and military industry, aerospace, modern space technology, nuclear fusion reactor engineering, and new materials research departments.

New materials are almost exclusively used in high-tech fields, so the requirements for performance and lifespan are even more stringent. Unconventional material mechanical performance tests, such as tensile, compressive, bending, shear (interlaminar shear), peel, torsion, fatigue (low cycle high cycle), creep endurance, impact, and hardness tests, are almost all required for new materials, and most require testing of their material mechanical properties under high temperature and other environmental conditions. New test methods are constantly being added, such as high-temperature fracture mechanics test, variable temperature creep fatigue test, etc.

Development history

The development of vacuum furnaces play a crucial role in human progress.

In the Shang Dynasty (BC1600-BC1046), China developed a relatively complete copper smelting furnace with a temperature of 1200 ℃ and an inner diameter of 0.8 meters.

During the Warring State Period(BC770-BC210), Chinese people further mastered the technology of increasing furnace temperature based on copper melting furnaces, thus producing cast iron.

In 1794, John Wilkinsona developed the straight cylindrical blast furnace (cupola) for melting cast iron and applied a patent in Britian.

In 1855, British engineer Karl William Siemens (1823-1883, originally from Germany) invented a high-temperature flame furnace equipped with a heat storage chamber and obtained a patent in 1856. This furnace was first used for melting glass.

In 1864, Frenchman PiereEmile Martin used the principle of Siemens’ regenerative furnace from Britain to build the first steelmaking open hearth furnace heated by gas fuel(Siemens-Martin furnace). He used a heat storage chamber to preheat the air and gas at high temperatures, ensuring a temperature of over 1600 ℃ required for steelmaking.

Around 1900, the supply of electricity gradually became sufficient, and various resistance furnaces, electric arc furnaces, and core induction furnaces began to be used.

Vacuum furnaces appeared around the 1930s.

In 1927, the United States produced a vacuum annealing furnace for electrical materials.

In 1953, vacuum consumable electric arc furnaces were used in industry for melting sponge titanium. Vacuum induction furnaces were widely used in industry around the 1950s.

In 1960, the United States developed an oil quenching vacuum furnace.

In 1969, SINOTEST started to develop high-temperature vacuum system.

In 1984, SINOTEST successfully developed the first high temperature vacuum tensile creep testing machine CJS-9 model, the highest temperature capacity of 1600℃ in China.

In 2012, SINOTEST successfully developed a 900 ℃ vacuum three-point bending test device for ceramic materials。

In 2017, SINOTEST successfully developed a 1000 ℃ vacuum multi-station creep testing device.