Ridiculously late responce, but actually yeah it is for Formula Student Kerry...
We've been struggling for ages now, and still haven't done any tests. We've been to all of the 'realistic' departments which would have impact testers...and despite have a few to choose from non of them are...
Hi,
I'm currently in my final year doing an Materials Science and Eng. BSc at IPTME (Loughborough University, UK). Although I've been approched by some companies, I'm not entirely sure what line of work I'd be doing. If there are any materials engineers out there I'd be interested to know what...
just as an update, we're going to use a DEKRA type test, involving a weighted trolley traveling at a known speed to contact out various material types.
Hello!
At the moment, my collegues and myself have been asked to test some materials for their crush strengths. Unfortunately our dept. doesn't have a decent method for impact/crush testing, so we've come up with a modification to a Charpy Impact test.
If you're unfamiliar, it's basically...