A device and a method for peeling tests, in order to test the peeling resistance of coupons each formed of a support and an adhesive. The device comprises: (i) a frame comprising rollers with parallel axes designed to maintain the coupon supported while guiding movement of the latter, (ii) a traction device comprising a vertical jack linked to an attachment element comprising a loop configured in order to cause detachment of the adhesive from the surface of the support, (iii) a device for measuring the force exerted by the jack in order to pull the loop during peeling, and (iv) a coupon, complex in shape, such as one derived from a reinforced vane. At least one roller is translationally adjustable in relation to other rollers and the coupon is specially prepared in order to facilitate carrying out the tests.

A method of offset load testing a tubular composite specimen with two pairs of aligned holes and having at least one defect, the method comprising: providing a testing apparatus having a pair of arms including a fixed arm and a mobile arm; securing the pair of arms using a fastener assembly in each of the two pairs of aligned holes; and moving the mobile arm to impart an offset load force to the tubular specimen. One aspect includes a method of offset load testing comprising: providing a testing apparatus having a pair of arms including a fixed arm and a mobile arm; providing a tubular composite specimen with a top portion and a bottom portion; securing the pair of arms to the top and bottom portions of the tubular composite specimen; and moving the mobile arm to impart an offset load force to the tubular composite specimen.

A method includes controlling an additive manufacturing system to fabricate a 3D structure using successive layers of material. The additive manufacturing system includes a build platform having a first region, second region, and overlapping third region between the first and second regions; and multiple sources configured to build (e.g., deposit, bond, melt, solidify) the successive layers of material in the regions of the build platform. Controlling the additive manufacturing system includes controlling the additive manufacturing system to build first, second, and third portions of the 3D structure within the regions of the build platform. Each portion of the 3D structure includes (i) one or more test features that are common to the portions of the 3D structure and (ii) a substrate onto or into which the one or more common test features are formed.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a tensile test on an elongate, more particularly fibrous, specimen, for example on a collagen fibril, comprising the steps of: -providing the elongate specimen; - attaching a handling particle to the elongate specimen; - providing a force sensor, on which a retainer for the handling particle on the elongate specimen is disposed; - connecting a handling apparatus to the handling particle on the elongate specimen; and - connecting the handling particle on the elongate specimen to the retainer on the force sensor by means of the handling apparatus. The invention also relates to a method and a device for performing a tensile test on an elongate specimen.

The present invention provides a testing and characterization method for an initial fatigue damage and development process of vulcanized rubber, and falls within the technical field of rubber. The testing and characterization method comprises the following steps: preparing vulcanized rubber; preparing test samples; preparing fatigue testing specimens; and characterizing an initial fatigue damage and development process. The testing and characterization method provided by the present invention is simple, and closely associates a simple and easy-to-implement macro mechanical property test with changes of an internal microstructure, which are difficult to observe and analyze; and the method is high in efficiency and easy for operation and data collection, and data measured has good reference.

A method of producing XY mechanical test specimens uses material extrusion additive manufacturing. Toolpaths are generated which vary a width of individual beads from a first narrow width in a gage length to a second width greater than the first width in a test specimen grip region. The test specimens produced using additive manufacturing or 3D printing processes reduce a severity of stress concentrators that cause the specimens to fail in the gage length.

Disclosed are a hydro-mechanical coupling experimental device with CT real-time scanning and a use method thereof. The hydro-mechanical coupling experimental device with the CT real-time scanning includes a CT scanning room and further includes a support frame, a hydro-mechanical coupling mechanism and a jack that are arranged in the CT scanning room. The support frame includes a base, a top plate, a plurality of columns for arranging the top plate and the base at intervals, and a movable plate that is arranged between the top plate and the base and can slide on the plurality of columns. The hydro-mechanical coupling mechanism includes an experimental box, a pressure box arranged inside the experimental box and a compression leg slidingly worn on a top of the experimental box; and the experimental box is arranged on the movable plate, and the jack is arranged on the base.

A testing method of thermal barrier coating (TBC) is for evaluating the presence or absence of damage to TBC formed on a bending part on which compression stress acts. The method includes a test piece that includes a pair of arm parts, a bending part arranged between the pair of arm parts, and a TBC layer on a bending surface of the bending part; attaching the test piece to a compression testing device after preparing the test piece; and applying compression stress to the test piece in a direction for bringing the pair of arm parts close together after attaching the test piece with the compression testing device. The pair of arm parts are arranged so as to separate from each other from base end portions toward front end portions of the arm parts. The bending part is arranged between the base end portions.

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a photocurable composition from which a molded product having excellent mechanical properties is obtained. The present disclosure provides a photocurable composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer and a vinyl monomer, wherein the vinyl monomer includes a first monomer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of −100° C. or more and 20° C. or less, and a second monomer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of more than 20° C. and 150° C. or less, an amount of the urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer ranges from 20 mass % to 80 mass %, an amount of the first monomer ranges from 15 mass % to 75 mass %, an amount of the second monomer ranges from 5 mass % to 65 mass %, and a total amount of the urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer and the vinyl monomer is 100 mass %.

A system for mechanical testing a specimen includes a 3D printed mechanical testing fixture; a linear actuator having an axis of movement; a controller configured to control the linear actuator; two cameras; a data-acquisition system configured to acquire data from the linear actuator, the controller, and the two cameras; and the specimen. The specimen is marked in two locations with tracking markers to provide indication to the data acquisition system via at least one camera of movement and change in length of the specimen. The fixture includes force-sensing beams extending perpendicular to the axis of force.