Testing Guides

Read about fatigue testing, cyclic loading, stress-life, strain-life, and more.

ADMET offers MTESTQuattro upgrade packages to upgrade testing machines previously retrofitted with MTESTWindows.

Medical adhesives are specialized substances used to bond medical devices, tissues, or other components together. They must comply with strict biocompatibility requirements and are vital in surgeries, wound care, and medical equipment manufacturing.

Tennis ball deformation testing was conducted utilizing an ADMET eXpert 7601 UTM per the International Tennis Federation guidelines.

Sandwich construction materials have a high strength-to-weight ratio, high stiffness-to-weight ratio, and low density. Their mechanical properties can be tested in various tests.

Knee joint prostheses are subject to mechanical testing in a variety of directions over an extended period of time.

Deflection, in materials science, is the amount a material deflects under compressive load. It is a displacement measurement with units expressed in millimeters or inches. This post goes over frequently asked questions around deflection measurements and equipment used to measure them.

Ropes are produced from a variety of materials and have a wide range of applications. Their mechanical properties must be verified.

Peel strength is calculated by averaging the load to peel the specimen and dividing it by unit width of the bond line.

Tensile testing FAQs including How does the loading rate affect tensile properties? How does grip-specimen engagement affect tensile properties? What is the best way to measure small strains? are answered.

If a specimen is not properly aligned, bending moments occur between the applied force and the specimen axes, affecting the final test results.

Suture tensile testing provides the key parameters when determining where the suture can be used and for how long it is intended to remain and is necessary to ensure the sutures meet the required performance specifications.

This post will help guide you through pinching (pincer) grip setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

An engineered solution with fatigue grip alignment fingers was designed to fatigue test small specimens.

ADMET hydraulic wedge grips are high capacity tensile grips that are offered in capacities from 100kN (22,480lbf) to 500kN (110,000lbf).

This blog post covers the description and determination of Young’s modulus, tangent modulus, and chord modulus.

Dynamic mechanical analysis is carried out by applying a sinusoidally varying force to a test specimen and measuring the resulting strain response. By analyzing the material response over one cycle, its elastic-spring-like storage modulus and its viscous or flow-like loss (imaginary) modulus can be determined.

This blog post covers non-clinical bench performance testing, specifically mechanical testing, and its reporting as recommended by the FDA, and provides a list of mechanical testing machines to run medical device testing.

This blog post covers the various test types such as tension, fatigue, and flexure and the recommended equipment to test vascular stents.

This blog post goes over the two different types (electromechanical and hydraulic) of universal testing machines and why accuracy, repeatability, and resolution are important in obtaining correct test results.

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.

Wide width tensile testing is a type of tensile testing procedure used with specimens prepared with wider width than the standard tensile specimen coupons.

Delve into MTESTQuattro, material testing system, for accurate tension, compression, creep, fatigue, friction, and more. Explore its capabilities now.

This blog post covers the different mechanical tests used to ensure automotive interior parts pass the test for aesthetics, quality, safety, and durability.

This blog post will cover certain fabric strength testing methods and go over the testing standards as well as the recommended equipment.

This post will go over the mechanics of bone and biomechanical testing of materials used in developing medical devices and equipment.

Calibration of a UTM entails verification of the accuracy of the instruments responsible for obtaining force and displacement measurements.

This blog will discuss whether tensile properties are affected if the same standard material is being tested in different geometries or dimensions.

In this post, we will show you how to set up MTESTQuattro to set specimen geometry for o-ring analysis.

This post will help guide you through creating a basic test with ADMET’s MTESTQuattro software.

MTESTQuattro features built-in analyses to save you time and get right to testing. We’re constantly adding new analyses to increase system capabilities.

This post will provide a quick run down of the main MTESTQuattro interface screen.

The eGauge feature allows external input of specimen information from digital micrometers, calipers and barcode scanners.

This post will help guide you through ASTM F1306 Puncture Fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through climbing drum peel fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through ASTM D695 Compression Fixture and Transducer setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through Coefficient of Friction fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through syringe compression fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through GW-XT wedge grip setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through roller grip setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through bend fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through compression platen setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through manual vise grip setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

This post will help guide you through peel fixture setup and operation on your universal testing machine.

MTESTQuattro has the ability to trigger an external device during a test through one of three outputs.

Materials testing systems are one option to consider when managing quality control of foam products. Foam testing is often concentrated on Indentation Force Deflection (IFD), a method for determining the firmness, stiffness, and load bearing capacity of the materials.

ASTM A370 is performed by steel manufacturers and commercial and government laboratories serving the construction industry to measure the strength of rebar.

ADMET’s universal testing systems are used to test a wide array of interior automotive parts.

All experimental measurements include errors. Before commencing testing, always ask the question: “Are my measurement errors small enough to not matter?” A thorough understanding of the sources and magnitudes of the errors is paramount to making accurate measurements.

A pipette (also spelled pipet or pipettor) is used to aspirate and dispense fluids in wells for analysis and further testing.

ADMET’s spinal implant testing systems are the best way to ensure that these devices go beyond any and all requirements.

The American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the International Standard Organization (ISO) are two organizations that govern mechanical test specifications.

Read on to see how to set up a test report in MTESTQuattro

This post will show you how to set a preload in MTESTQuattro.

Follow these easy steps to set up a torsion test in MTESTQuattro.

Read our guide on creating XY plots with MTESTQuattro

Step-by-step guide on setting up and running a compression test with MTESTQuattro

There are several ways you can export a data file in MTESTQuattro.

Peel tests are often used in packaging applications to determine the bond strength of freshness seals commonly found in food and medical packaging.

Critical to the process of testing is the accuracy of the load cell used to take the load measurements.

Bend testing (also flex or flexural testing) is commonly performed to measure the flexural strength and modulus of all types of materials and products.

Step-by-step guide on setting up data acquisition with MTESTQuattro

The modulus of elasticity is calculated as the slope in the linear elastic region of the stress-strain curve.