The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t mean animal testing in the US is over.

When stretching an adhesive specimen along a longitudinal direction, it has a tendency to thin in a lateral direction. Measuring the relationship between how thin a material becomes during stretching ...

President, Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc. One of the recurring themes in this column over the past few years has been the development of new test methods for sandwich composites. This is primarily a ...

Plastometrex, a material testing company, has led the development of ASTM Standard E3499-25 for Profilometry-based Indentation Plastometry (PIP), giving engineers and researchers a globally recognized ...

In practical use, a material only needs to be as strong as required, with factors like lightness, ease of manufacture, and sustainability guiding selection. Although paper, as a raw material, is on ...

Creep is a critical mechanical property essential for materials intended for components and structures that operate under sustained loads at elevated temperatures over extended periods. Traditionally, ...

Abstract: Mechanical testing methodologies are essential for advancing semiconductor packaging processes, ensuring the mechanical reliability of devices subjected to increasingly complex manufacturing ...

Two-photon polymerization (TPP) enables the fabrication of intricate 3D microstructures with submicron precision, offering significant potential in biomedical applications like tissue engineering. In ...