Fire protection systems are only as good as their testing reveals. Make sure your buildings and jobsites are equipped appropriately.

Micro-impact testing is a new repetitive contact technique, developed by Micro Materials, that is becoming more widespread as companies seek to optimise coating adhesion, toughness and resistance to ...

Silicone adhesives, along with primers, flame treatment, or plasma treatment, can be used to adhere low-surface-energy plastics to high-strength metals. For this article, several low-surface-energy ...

The pneumatic 90° peel fixture was developed specifically for electrode adhesion testing. This peel fixture is designed to help an operator align and clamp down a specimen quickly and consistently ...

Polymer scientists have devised a convenient way to construct test surfaces with a variable affinity for water, so that the same surface can range from superhydrophilic to superhydrophobic, and ...

An investigation of delamination in low-k films using nanoindentation revealed critical loads and adhesion energy for improved interconnect reliability.

A simple but effective way to double-check multi-coating finishes. Today, we see many different coatings being used in the same finishing processes, and I believe we need to be very careful that we ...

The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has started testing of a new rail adhesion measurement system. Conducted in partnership with Balfour Beatty Rail Limited (BBRL) and South West Trains, the ...