Abstract: A method for measuring the plasticity of materials such as ceramic raw materials and masses. A weight acts on a sample body and a path signal that reproduces the deformation of the sample body is measured. During the deformation process, the time progression of a reaction force applied by the sample body is measured. Path and force measurement values are passed to a computer for processing and evaluation. Devices for measuring the plasticity of a material according to the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for measuring the plasticity of materials such as ceramic raw materials and masses. A weight acts on a sample body and a path signal that reproduces the deformation of the sample body is measured. During the deformation process, the time progression of a reaction force applied by the sample body is measured. Path and force measurement values are passed to a computer for processing and evaluation. Devices for measuring the plasticity of a material according to the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A displacement pickup for detecting positions of an adjusting device, in particular an adjusting device of fuel injection pumps. In an advantageous manner, an adjustment of the displacement pickup can be performed with the aid of a cylindrical tang, which is displaceable and fixable in a through bore in the wall of a housing receiving the adjusting device and through the interior of which an adjusting device of the displacement pickup can be adjusted from outside the housing. In a displacement pickup advantageously embodied as a rotary potentiometer, a contact means of a resistor (R.sub.a) of the resistance course of the potentiometer can thus be adjusted.