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agosto 28, 2014
Preloading, and How It Affects Your Mechanical Test
Preloading, and How It Affects Your Mechanical Test Elena Mangano It is almost always recommended that the Bluehill® Software preload feature be used when you’re performing a mechanical test. Preloading […]
agosto 25, 2014
Automated XY Stage System Preventing Shattered Glass and Inaccurate Data
Automated XY Stage System Preventing Shattered Glass and Inaccurate Data Suzanne de Lemos-Williams A pharmaceutical customer came to us with what they thought was a simple, low force, compression testing […]
agosto 21, 2014
Oyster Glue Inspiring Stronger Adhesives
Oyster Glue Inspiring Stronger Adhesives 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 […]
agosto 13, 2014
High Frequency Testing of Nitinol Wire
High Frequency Testing of Nitinol Wire Sarah Jastram Nitinol wire is a superelastic alloy with unique shape-memory properties that render it especially useful for a variety of different applications across […]
agosto 7, 2014
Consumer Reports Uses Instron for Bend Testing Smartphone
Consumer Reports Uses Instron for Bend Testing Smartphone Consumer Reports sought to test LG’s G Flex smartphone, which claims to bend to life’s curves. The material properties of rigid plastic, […]
agosto 5, 2014
Quick Tips for Balancing Load Cells
Quick Tips for Balancing Load Cells Elena Mangano Whether you use bathroom scales, digital kitchen scales, spring scales – or any other measuring instrument, for that matter – you know […]
agosto 4, 2014
What is the Best Way to Grip Thin-walled Steel Tubes for Tension Testing?
What is the Best Way to Grip Thin-walled Steel Tubes for Tension Testing? Q. What is the Best Way to Grip Thin-walled Steel Tubes for Tension Testing? A. For testing […]
agosto 3, 2014
WPI Students Test ACL Graft Pretension Methods
WPI Students Test ACL Graft Pretension Methods At Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Biomedical Engineering Symposium, biomedical engineering students presented their research on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) grafts. With an Instron electromechanical […]
agosto 1, 2014
Extensometer Slippage
Extensometer Slippage 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 […]