Buying Guides

Read our Buying Guides to discover tips on how to pick out the right testing equipment for your application. If you need more assistance, contact us and we’ll be happy to help you find what you need!

Fatigue Testing Buying Guide

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Not all fatigue testing systems are created equal. ADMET’s buying guide breaks down the critical specifications and features engineers need to evaluate before investing in a fatigue testing setup.

Material Testing Labs

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ADMET offers testing machines and retrofits to help material testing labs expand their mechanical testing capabilities and meet client requirements.

Materials Research and Development

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Learn why material research and development professionals across the world use ADMET universal testing machines, controllers, and fixtures.

Academic Material Research and Testing

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ADMET provides testing machines and system retrofits for academia. Explore our products and services for universities and research institutions.

Quality Control Testing

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ADMET’s goal is to help manufacturers in their quality control testing by increasing efficiency of their in-house testing processes. Learn more now.

Tensile Grip Buying Guide

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Performing tensile tests requires a firm grip on your samples. Selecting the most suitable grip is crucial for obtaining accurate measurements of tensile properties like tensile strength, yield, peak load, elongation, and tensile modulus.

Why Do I Need Material Testing?

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Material testing provides quantifiable data on a material’s properties under specific mechanical and/or environmental conditions

How Can I Ensure My Products Meet ASTM Standards?

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This blog post covers testing for ASTM certification, situations faced by organizations to ensure their products meet the required standards, and checklists to verify compliance.

Compact Tensile Grips

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Compact tensile grips are required for small specimen testing or in test spaces where the vertical or horizontal space is limited.

Specimen Cutting Die Catalog

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ADMET offers specimen cutting dies for ASTM and ISO standards as well as custom dies per customer-specified dimensions.

Materials and Testing Equipment

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Learn about the common test types and equipment that we recommend to test three different materials: foam, concrete, and elastomers.

ADMET Diagnostic Sales Approach

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At ADMET, our goal is to ensure your expectations are met when partnering and making a purchase with us. To do so, we ask detailed questions about your test application in order to recommend a testing system that will meet your goals within an agreed upon time frame.

The Case for Rotating Beam Fatigue Testing

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Rotating Beam Fatigue testing allows researchers to perform fatigue testing at higher frequencies while saving capital expenses by purchasing a much simpler and more cost-effective test machine design compared to high capacity servo-hydraulic axial fatigue test systems.

ADMET Online Training FAQs

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand that your operations may have changed. Your safety is of top importance to us. Read ADMET online training FAQs here.

Jaw Selection for Tensile Grips

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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 need to be discarded.

Viscoelasticity Testing & Equipment

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Viscoelasticity Testing & Equipment of materials such as plastics, biologic tissues, synthetic fibers, polymers, and metals from ADMET.

Axial Extensometer Guide

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This blog post covers some of the common questions on axial extensometers. The guidance is based on ADMET equipment.

Aerospace Testing Equipment

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In the aerospace industry, materials testing is critical in successful product development and implementation.

Concrete Testing: Manual vs. Automated Operation

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In addition to simple compression testing, testing standards such as ASTM C39, ASTM C109, ASTM C469, ASTM C1609 are among the test methods that can be followed to measure the mechanical properties of a concrete specimen.

Bend Testing Equipment Guide

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Universal testing machines equipped with bend fixtures are used to calculate flexural modulus, flexural strength, yield point, and more. This blog post will discuss the equipment required for common testing standards as well as equipment available for less common testing applications.

What kind of tensile grips should I buy?

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Find the right type of tensile grips for your testing application! This post discusses the different options available so you can make the best choice.

Material Testing Training

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ADMET systems ship to your facility with assembly instructions, tutorials, and manuals. Training sessions are strongly recommended for customers who would like to use their system to the fullest.

Materials Testing Machine Costs

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There are multiple costs associated with purchasing and operating a materials testing machine that should be considered prior to purchase.