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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Efficiency of Continuously Increasing Load During Tests

Efficiency of Continuously Increasing Load During Tests This month, Instron hydraulic wedge grips had the privilege to be on the cover of Materials Testing, a German-English materials testing journal. The […]