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 ...

If you’re serious about engineering the things you build, you need to know the limits of the materials you’re working with. One important way to characterize materials is to test the tensile strength ...

These testing machines from Zwick are predominantly used to perform tensile, compression and flexure tests with complex, dynamic stress sequences. Force or strain-controlled tests for determining the ...

The manufacture of cable begins with the drawing of high quality tensile wire. The wire is typically either galvanized high carbon A1S1 C1050/1070 or A1S1 302/304 stainless steel. Cable can be made ...

This video illustrates the tensile strength testing of a consumer-grade rope carried out using the Admet's eXpert 7603 universal testing machine. The tensile rope grips are modeled in such a way that ...