21st January 2021
Veganuary Story: How Polymers saved Animals
What is Veganuary? Since 2014, January has a different connotation than just “January Blues”, due…
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30th October 2020
Properties of Spiders Silk – Tensile Strength
Discovering materials and replicating them synthetically is something that humans have been doing for centuries. Spiders silk,…
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16th May 2018
ASTM D638 Tensile Testing
ASTM D638 ASTM D638 (technically equivalent to ISO 527 -1) is a testing standard which…
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21st March 2017
Importance of plastic pipe quality testing
Importance of plastic pipe quality testing We recently conducted destructive testing of a plastic pipeline…
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9th February 2015
Butt fusion weld testing
Quality Assurance and plastic pipe weld testing during installation is a regular part of Impact’s…
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10th November 2014
Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) testing
Impact Solutions have added Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) capabilities to their extensive list of capabilities.…
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17th July 2014
Tensile Testing – Modulus, Strength, Break, Elongation
What is Tensile Testing? Initial Linear Response and Elastic Modulus The tensile behaviour of polyethylene…
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