Overview
Thermocouples Don't Provide the Full Picture
Contact temperature sensors give you a reading where you placed them. If a hotspot develops somewhere else, if heat migrates along a joint, or if a fatigue crack starts to dissipate energy before it becomes visible, a point sensor will not see it.
Trilion deploys Telops and InfraTec infrared cameras to record the entire surface temperature field, at frame rates high enough to follow fast thermal events, and synchronized with the mechanical measurement chain so thermal and structural behaviour line up in time.
Cameras
Telops, Flir or InfraTec: We Match Your Needs to the Right Camera
Telops FAST V60, M3k and HD-IR cover the high-speed and high-sensitivity end, where thermal events move quickly or where small temperature differences carry the signal. The InfraTec ImageIR series and VarioCAM HD cover high-resolution thermography for larger fields of view and longer duration tests.
At Trilion, our sensor choice is driven by the physics of your test: waveband, integration time, thermal resolution and field of view all change what is measurable.
Applications
t.Thermal: A Fully Controlled and Integrated Chamber
Many materials only reveal their real behaviour at temperature. The Trilion thermal chamber holds a specimen at a controlled temperature while optical access is preserved, so full-field strain and thermal measurement continue through the test rather than stopping at the chamber wall.
Common in composites, polymers, and alloy qualification work across aerospace and automotive programs. We also run these tests for you through offsite lab services.
Partnership
Thermo-mechanical simulation: the Gleeble partnership
The Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulation system reproduces the heating, deformation and cooling a material actually sees in forming, welding and heat treatment, on a specimen rather than on a production line.
The Gleeble 3500-GTC reaches temperatures up to 3000 C and heating rates up to 10,000 C per second under direct resistance heating, with mechanical loading applied through the same cycle. That combination is what lets a lab reproduce a weld thermal cycle, a hot rolling pass, or a heat-affected zone and then measure what the material did.
Adding optical strain and infrared measurement to a Gleeble test turns a process simulation into measured, full-field data you can compare against a model. See material testing, or the Gleeble 3500 specifications.
Thermal & Infrared systems
The cameras Trilion deploys and supports in this category
Thermal chamber automation with synchronized DIC capture
t.Thermal
Drive environmental chamber heat, cool, and soak profiles while synchronizing camera acquisitions. Enables temperature-controlled DIC and digital scanning programs without operator babysitting.
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Physical Simulation Systems for Materials Research and Manufacturing
Gleeble Thermo-Mechanical Simulation System
Gleeble's line of thermo-mechanical simulators purpose-built to address the most demanding challenges in materials testing. Whether you're developing next-generation alloys, optimizing manufacturing processes, or validating material performance under extreme conditions, Gleeble's physical simulation systems deliver the precision, repeatability, and control that materials scientists and engineers demand.
High-speed mid-wave infrared camera
Telops FAST V60
FAST V60 captures mid-wave thermal radiation at thousands of frames per second with calibrated radiometric output. Built for combustion studies, ballistic events, and hypersonic flight test.
Ultra high-speed thermal imaging
Telops M3k
M3k captures thermal events at up to 90,000 fps in subwindow mode, resolving microsecond-scale temperature transients. Used for failure analysis, material thermal response, and friction studies.
High-definition thermal imaging
Telops HD-IR
HD-IR series delivers HD-resolution thermal imagery for aerospace flight test, target signature characterization, and large-scale infrared inspection. Calibrated radiometric output for quantitative work.
Cooled MWIR thermal imaging platform
InfraTec ImageIR Series
Modular cooled-detector platform from InfraTec covering 320 x 256 to 1280 x 1024 sensor formats. Calibrated for quantitative thermography in R&D, NDT, and process monitoring.
Uncooled high-resolution thermal camera
InfraTec VarioCAM HD
Uncooled microbolometer at HD-class resolution with optomechanical microscan up to 2048 x 1536. Workhorse for production monitoring, condition assessment, and building diagnostics.