Measurement Errors in Material Testing
Material testing is that part of engineering design, development and research that relies on laboratory testing of one kind or another to answer questions. Testing is also required during manufacturing to ensure a material or [...]
Understanding a Universal Testing Machine Motor Control System
The mechanical properties of a material are determined by using a testing machine to push, pull or twist a sample of the material. Many materials are strain rate sensitive which means their properties vary with [...]
Bucknell University – ADMET: Planar Biaxial Testing for Soft Tissue Research
Bucknell University Mechanical & Chemical Engineering departments use ADMET’s eXpert 8000 Planar Biaxial testing system equipped with MTESTQuattro, an environmental bath, and the ADMET video extensometer for fibrous soft tissue (eg. skeletal muscle, tendon, meniscus) [...]
Additive Manufacturing News & Testing
As a manufacturer in the material testing industry, ADMET is linked with other sectors that rely on materials. Our engineers closely follow relevant studies and news updates in various industries including material research, machinery, [...]
Jaw Selection for Tensile Grips
Tensile grip jaw selection plays an important role for successful mechanical tests as if specimen slippage between the jaws occurs or if the specimen breaks or tears in the jaw area testing may [...]
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 [...]
Four Key Factors in Selecting the Right Universal Testing Machine
At ADMET, we first diagnose your testing application fully before recommending a product. When you work with ADMET, you work with sales professionals from engineering backgrounds that will help you find a solution to [...]