Product and Material Testing Reference Materials

Description: PET bottles are the shooting stars of the packaging industry, and the importance of polyethylene phthalate (PET) for a wide variety of applications continues to increase steadily. As PET is used more ...

Description: There are 17 million people or 6.2% of the population in the United States who have diabetes. About 60% to 70% of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of nervous system damage that results ...

Description: Articular cartilage is often characterized as an isotropic elastic material with no interstitial fluid flow during instantaneous and equilibrium conditions, and indentation testing is commonly used to ...

Description: Hydrogels, which are water-swollen cross-linked polymers, are becoming increasingly important in a wide array of biomedical applications. One of the earliest uses of hydrogels was in the development ...

Description: One of the biggest recurring expenses runners face is the cost of new running shoes. Runners who regularly log forty, fifty, or sixty plus miles a week can easily use up a pair of training flats in ...

Description: Sonoelastography imaging is being investigated as a method of imaging the creation of thermal lesions induced by high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or radio frequency (RF) ablation. When ...

Description: Mechanical properties of vocal-fold tissues are important in the study of the acoustics and biomechanics of voice production. Biomedical engineering researchers at MIT and voice scientists in the ...

Description: Orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) are a new and exciting alternative to traditional tablet and liquid medication dosages. ODTs are a tablet form of medication that dissolves on the tongue, aided ...

Description: Bone is a living organ whose structure and function are affected by various factors including mode and frequency of loading, age, and disease.1 It is a hierarchical composite material that is made up ...

Description: There is currently a large demand for small diameter (< 5 mm) vascular grafts to replace diseased arteries of the coronary and peripheral vasculature. Particularly vascular grafts developed from ...

Description: Cartilage is a remarkably complex biocomposite material that exhibits outstanding compressive stiffness, toughness, strength, resiliency, and shock absorption. Diseases such as osteo-arthritis damage ...

Description: Heart valve prostheses have been used successfully in heart procedures since 1960 resulting in an overall improvement in the quality of life of the patients. Currently, there are two kinds of valves ...

Description: Recent examination of restored molars suggests that cyclic crack growth may contribute a greater understanding of restored tooth fracture. It was found that molars with typical amalgam restoration ...

Description: Many products in the telecommunications industry are required to meet various Telcordia (Bellcore) Generic Requirement (GR) specifications to establish product quality and reliability. Several of ...

Description: Automotive and electrical components that need be thermal-cycled come in many shapes and sizes, as do test chambers. But one size definitely does not fit all. Just try to force your half-buck fixture ...

Description: The chemical adsorption isotherm reveals information about the active surface of a material and has been employed for many years as a standard analytical tool for the evaluation of catalysts. ...