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Material Technologies Inc. has many of the hallmarks of a startup. The Los Angeles-based company has technology that it claims will revolutionize its industry in this case the critical process of ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's ...

Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what’s called metal fatigue, which ...

Mechanical testing is a way of testing and measuring the properties of materials. Machines/instruments are available to test materials or finished products in a range of different ways including ...

Dr. Gary Fry is the Vice President of Fry Technical Services, Inc. He has 30 years of experience in research and consulting on the fatigue and fracture behavior of structural metals and weldments. His ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers detail a new method for testing metals at a microscopic scale. The research exposes the origins of crack initiation in metals and unravels a method to prevent ...