This video demonstrates a compression test performed on a paper cup using a compression testing system from Instron. Instron compression testers are used to determine the compressive strength of ...

Corrugated cardboard is used all over the world for strong, cheap, and light recyclable packaging. Many boxes are made to certain customers’ demands, and the aim of these tests is to maximize strength ...

About a dozen years ago, the world of test had reached an economic impasse: most digital designs had become sufficiently complex that standard scan testing techniques were no longer cost-effective.

I noted in a 2005 column (see "Current compression test methods" under “Editor's Pick,” at top right) that there are three basic methods of loading a composite material test specimen in compression: ...