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 ...

In this video we electroplate SLA samples with Acid Copper and Bright Nickel, then test their tensile and ultimate strength using a universal testing machine. Stress measurements are done with a load ...

A universal testing machine (UTM) can carry out a broad spectrum of tests, applying tensile and compression forces and assessing the test specimen’s load-displacement response. A key component of the ...