Plastic materials have been utilized in diverse products in a broad range of fields in recent years. Some of these include not only automotive parts such as bumpers, but also medical materials, daily ...

A material’s hardness relates to its mechanical resistance when subjected to mechanical indentation by another harder body. Diamond is considered the hardest natural material and is typically used for ...

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 ...