Last year the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) began running tougher new side impact crash testing designed to replicate real-world situations involving impacts from SUVs. The results are ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has expanded and advanced a ballistic resistance testing technique, the Laser-Induced Particle Impact Test (LIPIT), previously limited to using microscopic ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) began performing tougher new side impact crash testing last year designed to better replicate real-world situations involving impacts from SUVs and ...

In my January 2024 column, I reported on a new ASTM test method for use in assessing the damage tolerance of sandwich composites under compression loading: the sandwich compression-after-impact (CAI) ...

The Instron MPX motorized pendulum impact test system with Bluehill ® Impact software is the preferred system for metals impact testing to Charpy and Izod standards. Available in capacities ranging ...

TTC tour participants explored various testing sites, many of which had never been seen by the public before, shuttled on tour buses. At one of the sites, attendees exited the bus to see one of the ...