Material Testing: Crucial Step in Bridge Development & Engineering Design
Bridge failures underscore the importance of rigorous material testing. The collapse of the incomplete pedestrian bridge at Florida International University on March 2018 is an example where design errors led to growing cracks as [...]
Lüders Bands Phenomenon in ASTM E8 Tensile Testing
Some metals, particularly annealed low-carbon steel, or mild steel, show a discontinuity when transitioning from elastic to plastic deformation that produces the yield point phenomenon in the stress strain curve. An example of the discontinuity [...]
Puncture Testing Essentials
Puncture testing, performed to determine the penetration or the puncture strength of materials used in packaging, food, textiles, and medical industries, measures properties such as maximum force, breaking strength, and the penetration distance. In [...]
ADMET Strong Ties With Colleges and Universities
As a Massachusetts-based manufacturer, ADMET has strong ties with colleges and universities in the Boston area and Northeastern University is one of them. ADMET testing machines have become integral to the early undergraduate academic experience, [...]
Wide Width Tensile Testing
Tensile testing is among the most standard tests performed by universal testing machines yet depending on how the test specimen is used in its native environment, setting up the tensile test method is not [...]
Viscoelasticity Testing & Equipment
Certain materials such as plastics, biologic tissues, synthetic fibers, polymers, and metals at elevated temperatures exhibit a combination of viscous and elastic characteristics with mechanical properties that depend on the rate at which they [...]