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If you are investigating a new novel material, or if you require a material supplier for consistency, then let us help you do this. With a test laboratory & environment chambers for temperature-dependent testing, we can help you test & characterize you materials.

In addition to these services, with our advanced modelling capabilities, we can offer to fit your test data to constitutive material models for modelling purposes.

Tests Available

• Materials testing
  • Tensile & Compressive testing (Stress-strain)
  • Thermal tests
  • Load to failure (yield, strain-hardening)
  • Fatigue
• Materials characterization
  • Temperature dependence stress-strain
  • Creep (primary, secondary & tertiary)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Field Emission (FEG-SEM)
• Transition Electron Microscopy (TEM)
• Light Microscopy
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Constitutive Material Models Available

A list of some of the material models we’ve developed & characterised for our clients include:

• Soft-tissue (biological) material models
  • Fung type[1] strain energy Material models
  • Bone-remodelling
    • Related to strain energy density (SED), or principle strains or hydrostatic stress
• Hyper-elastic (rubber-like materials)
  • Mooney-Rivilin & Ogden strain energy material models
• Super-elastic / Shape Memory
  • Nitinol
• Elasto-plastic
  • von Mises
  • Ramberg-Osgood functions for copper alloys
• Visco-elastic
• Creep
• Visco-plasticity

[1] Fung, Y.-C. (1993). Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues. New York: Springer-Verlag.