Axel Products, Inc.

Provides testing services for engineers and analysts. The focus is on the characterization of nonlinear materials such as elastomers and plastics for users of ABAQUS, ANSYS, Endurica, Marc, and Dyna.

Testing Services

Related experiments, downloads and pricing by application.

Elastomer (hyperelastic) Characterization

Plastic Characterization

Sponge Elastomer Characterization

Vibration and Viscoelastic Experiments

Thermal Properties Measurements

High Strain Rate Experiments

Medical Material Testing in Saline

Friction Measurements

Component Tests

Durability and Crack Growth of Elastomers

Fatigue and Crack Growth of Plastics

Long Term Creep and Stress Relaxation Tests

Technical Downloads

Popular downloads.

Testing Elastomers for Hyperelastic Models (PDF)

Testing Plastics for FEA (PDF)

Testing at High Strain Rates (PDF)

Measuring the Long Term Creep Properties of Plastic Materials for Finite Element Analysis (PDF)

Measuring the Shear Properties of Plastic Materials for Finite Element Analysis (PDF)

Using ENDURICA to Compare Two Rubbers Under Multiaxial Spectrum Loading (PDF)

Measuring Dynamic Properties (PDF)

Fatigue and Crack Growth in Engineering Plastics (PDF)

Elastomer Rate-dependence: A Testing and Material Modeling Methodology (PDF)

Location and Contact Information:

Axel Products, Inc.
2255 S. Industrial Hwy.
Ann Arbor MI 48104
Phone: +1 734-994-8308
Fax: +1 734-994-8309
info@axelproducts.com

Image of wire, rubber and plastic test specimens.

Training Courses

Testing and Analysis of Elastomers with Abaqus

March 24-26, 2015

September 15-17, 2015

ANSYS Experimental Structural Plastics

April 8-9, 2015

October 7-8, 2015

ANSYS Mechanical Experimental Elastomers

April 29-30, 2015

October 28-29, 2015

Characterizing Elastomer Fatigue Behavior for Analysis and Engineering

April 14-16, 2015

November 11-12, 2015

MSC.Marc FEA software logo

Material Testing and Models in LS-DYNA

Q1, 2015

MSC.Marc FEA software logo

(MAR103) Marc Experimental Elastomer Analysis

tbd, 2015

Fe-safe fatigue software

Introduction to fe-safe/Rubber™

tbd , 2015

Theory & Application of Rubber Fatigue Analysis

tbd , 2015

Webinar Training Courses

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Analysis of fiber-reinforced composites