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Posted By Elena Mangano
Aug 28, 2014
It is almost always recommended that the Bluehill® Software preload feature be used when you’re performing a mechanical test. Preloading simply removes slack from the load string before a test begins.
Posted By Suzanne de Lemos-Williams
Aug 25, 2014
A pharmaceutical customer came to us with what they thought was a simple, low force, compression testing procedure that they wanted to automate to keep pace with increasing product testing demands.
Posted On Aug 21, 2014
What adhesive is so strong that it sets wet? That's right: naturally produced oyster glue. Chemist Jonathan Wilker from Purdue University focuses his research on this cement that allows oysters to attach to surfaces and each other, even throughout storms.
Posted By Sarah Jastram
Aug 13, 2014
Nitinol wire is a superelastic alloy with unique shape-memory properties that render it especially useful for a variety of different applications across industries. As nitinol requires a great deal of motion and flexibility in its applications, mechanical testing of nitinol must reach very high fatigue strains.
Posted On Aug 07, 2014
Consumer Reports sought to test LG's G Flex smartphone, which claims to bend to life's curves. The material properties of rigid plastic, aluminum, and glass typically are used in mobile devices, and one might assume they would be difficult to bend.
Posted By Elena Mangano
Aug 05, 2014
Whether you use bathroom scales, digital kitchen scales, spring scales – or any other measuring instrument, for that matter – you know the importance of zeroing it before it’s used. Failure to do so results in a shift in weight and thus, an incorrect reading on the scale. Now let’s think about the load cell in your testing system, which is just like a scale …
Posted On Aug 04, 2014
Q. What is the Best Way to Grip Thin-walled Steel Tubes for Tension Testing?
Posted On Aug 03, 2014
At Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Biomedical Engineering Symposium, biomedical engineering students presented their research on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) grafts. With an Instron electromechanical testing system, the students were able to analyze stress relaxation and creep techniques used for pretensioning before attaching ACL grafts in reconstructive surgery.
Posted On Aug 01, 2014
Some of our customers are frustrated when they experience slippage of their strain gauge extensometers. Close examination of their extensometer knife-edges often reveals wear that has rounded the edge, increasing the likelihood of slippage.
