THE scramble for personal protective equipment (PPE) and face masks early in the pandemic has led to the opening of a Medical Textile Testing Center under the Department of Science and Technology – ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intertek, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, announces the expansion of its textile testing capabilities in the U.S., with the launch of new ...

Although standardized test methods for fiber-reinforced composites are used for a wide variety of fiber forms, most of these test methods were developed with a focus on composites with continuous ...

Sophisticated facilities for testing textile qualities at the laboratory of the Textile Committee (TC) unit here under the Textile Ministry remain underutilised because of lack of awareness among ...

A testing machine can be used to push, pull or twist a sample of the material in order to determine the mechanical properties of a material. Many materials are strain rate sensitive which means that ...

Materials testing is a well-established technique used to determine the physical and mechanical properties of raw materials and components from a human hair to steel, composite materials and ceramics.