For nearly 150 years, construction materials testing has been a manual effort. Whether in an engineering lab, a commercial lab, at cement/ready-mix manufacturers’ sites or in the field, specimens are ...

The last decade has seen a massive shift toward automated testing practices, which wiped out the manual handling of a lot of rote tasks. But the pervasiveness of this change has been so quick that ...

Bridging the gap between theory and reality, material testing transforms dense technical specifications into the physical ...

Although failure of material is not the only reason for bridge failures, it is a vital step for choosing the correct materials, the analysis of bridge design, and construction testing. Bridge members ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...