This video demonstrates the compression test performed on a milk crate using Instron universal testing machine. Compression testing was performed to measure the strength of the milk crate. Instron ...

Universal testing machines (UTMs) that test mechanical properties such as tensile, flexural, compressive and shear are among the most commonly used instruments plastics compounders are likely to buy ...

Material testing is important in big industry, where manufacturers must be able to trust the properties of the raw materials they’re using. The rest of us generally take a supplier’s word for it that ...

The devices can be used as stand-alone testers or be installed in an optical or atomic microscope to compare the macroscopic stress-strain states with the microscopic changes in the material. The ...

AKRON—Smithers has added a new universal testing machine for use in the materials physical testing laboratory in its home city of Akron. The machine, known as an Instron 5985 Universal Testing System, ...