(Nanowerk News) Testing the stiffness or tensile strength of fibres in the nano to micro range experimentally, is often very time-consuming. The samples in most cases have to be affixed using adhesive ...

When we think of tensile specimen grips, our first mental image is probably that of the wedge grips that apply uniform clamping forces to the ends of flat test specimens. These were discussed in ...

The most ubiquitous technique for macroscale mechanical characterization of materials is the tensile test. This is because it supplies a full stress strain curve to permit the analysis of such crucial ...

Mechanical fasteners have been used to join wood and metal plates for hundreds of years. Because mechanical fastening of composite material plates is a much more recent development, most of the ...

The FMT-W40 is a motorized wire-terminal pull tester that comes in two models—one with a tensile strength capacity of up to 500 N (110 lbf) and the other one with up to 1000 N (220 lbf). The FMT-W40 ...