Please read the following guidelines before requesting a destructive sampling loan. Permission must be granted to perform any type of destructive or invasive sampling on UCM specimens. The term ...

Ulm-Einsingen – based Zwick started the manufacture of testing machines back in 1938 and grew, in the ensuing decades, to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of machines for materials ...

Destructive sampling is a research method that involves intentionally altering or damaging a specimen to address specific scientific questions. Because this process is irreversible, the University of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The estimation of mean and standard deviation from the values of two quantiles dividing the specimens into three groups has, by previous ...

Sometimes a testing concept is known for a long time but is never developed into an established test method. It isn’t discarded, but the concept languishes for lack of a champion; that is, a strong ...

Fission neutrons for materials testing have been available for decades in hundreds of experimental reactors worldwide; an extensive database for irradiated materials is available. Unfortunately, ...

Back in April 2015, my CW column focused on the two ASTM standardized test methods used for measuring the through-the-thickness, or interlaminar, tensile strength of composite laminates. Despite their ...