Ultrasonic testing (UT)
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
What is the measurement principle behind ultrasonic testing?What is the coupling agent used for?How are ultrasound...
Cupping test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
What is the cupping test (according to Erichsen)?What is cold formability?
Stress-relaxation test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
How is the stress-relaxation test performed?For which applications is the stress-relaxation test of great importance?What is...
Stress rupture test (creep rupture test)
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
What is a hot yield strength?What is creep?What factors influence the intensity of creep?At what temperatures...
Fatigue test
The fatigue test provides information about the strength of a material under continuously changing stress (dynamic load).
This article provides answers to...
Charpy impact test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
What are the objectives of the "Charpy impact test"?Why does "notch impact energy" represent a measure...
Bending flexural test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
How does the flexural stress distribution in the cross-section of a specimen subjected to bend loading...
Hardness test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
How is the hardness of materials defined?On which principles are all hardness testing methods based?Which indenter...
Compression test
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
Why are no longish specimens used in the compression test?Why is the true compressive stress lower...
Tensile test
The tensile test is used to determine material parameters such as strength (yield point, ultimate tensile strength) and toughness (elongation at break)! More information about the tensile test can...
Destructive material testing & non-destructive testing (NDT)
This article provides answers to the following questions, among others:
What type of loads do exist?What is dimensioning?What is the primary purpose of destructive testing?In which...
