Materials testing machines are predominantly used for the determination of the strength and deformation behaviour of specimens and components. For this purpose, tensile, compression, flexure or shear ...

Ulm-Einsingen – based Zwick started the manufacture of testing machines back in 1938 and grew, in the ensuing decades, to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of machines for materials ...

It’s been a long time in the works, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has published a final rule that amends the federal regulated industry drug-testing program to include oral fluid specimen ...

The Department of Transportation is proposing to add new drug testing guidelines that would permit motor carriers to test truck drivers using oral fluid samples as an alternative to urine testing.

When we think of tensile specimen grips, our first mental image is probably that of the wedge grips that apply uniform clamping forces to the ends of flat test specimens. These were discussed in ...

A composite material is tabbed prior to testing, typically, for one of two reasons: to protect the material from damage from applied loads during the test or to increase the area of the loading region ...

Proposed revisions that would have allowed drug testing based on hair, oral fluid, and sweat patch specimens and point-of-collection testing of urine specimens in federal workplace drug testing ...

WATERFORD, MI -- It begins when a medical professional sticks an unfortunately long Q-tip-like swab into your nose or mouth. It ends when a machine using sophisticated software analyzes the extracted ...

13 Investigates looked into a practice to see if Indiana is ready to jump in. The old practice, called "specimen pooling" or "pooling testing," is making a new splash. It simply means testing multiple ...

As the summer Olympic Games are upon us, there will inevitably be instances of athletes being banned from the Games due to doping. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) is the body governing American ...