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Material Testing Services for Engineers and Analysts

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Elastomer Hyperelastic

Elastomer Testing in Tension, Shear, Biaxial and Bulk strain states to fit stable and accurate material models.

Viscoelastic test data.

Elastomer Viscoelastic & Rate Effects

Step tests, DMA vibrations, large strain oscillation experiments to characterize viscoelastic behaviors.

High strain rate test instrument.

High Strain Rate Testing

Strain rate experiments to 1000/s across a range of materials to provide crash, impact and dynamic event material properties.

Simulation software vendor logos.

Training

Training to support materials testing and material model generation provided with the support of simulation software providers.

Foam shear test specimen.

Foams Hyperfoam

Foam materials testing in Compression, Shear and Tension strain states to fit stable and accurate hyperfoam material models.

Hyperelastic tensile, shear and biaxial data fit example.

Material Model Calibration Services

Elastomer, foam and plastic material models are fitted for native material models in Abaqus, ANSYS, Marc and other simulation codes.

DIC strain filed on plastic tensile specimen.

Plastic Characterization

Experiments in Tension, Shear, Compression at a wide range of rates, temperatures and loading patters to support the creation of complex plastic material models.

Plastic fatigue instrument with environmental chamber.

Plastic Fatigue & Creep

Fatigue and Creep experiments are performed to generate data sets to support CAE material cards for durability analysis.

Rubber cutting resistance experiment.

Rubber Fatigue and Crack Growth

Fatigue Crack Growth tests and other tearing energy experiments are performed to support fracture based failure material models in durability analysis.

Adhesive cleavage test specimen.

Adhesives, Fabrics, Foils & Miscellaneous

Many different materials are characterized at Axel Products including Adhesive, Fabrics and Foils.

News

Instron high stain rate test system, VHS 160/100-20 with environmental chamber and high speed Photron SA-Z camera and inTest cooling system.

New High Strain Rate System at Axel

Axel Products has installed a new Instron VHS 160/100-20 high strain rate system.  After nearly a year long installation, the system is producing spectacular results!  The system can perform tensile experiments at 20 meters per second.  And the system can generate a 100 kN force while going 20 meters per

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Endurica Event

Axel Products is a sponsor at the 2 day  Endurica Community Conference.   The event is held in Finlay Ohio which will experience a Total Solar Eclipse during the conference!   The conference will pause for a few hours and attendees will have roof top access and a clear view of the

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Compression vs Volumetric Compression graph

Rubber Is Incompressible

What about the bulk part of the hyperelastic material model?  Material models for elastomers, rubber, typically have 2 parts.  The deviatoric part which handles large elastic strains and the bulk part which handles very small volumetric strains. Bad things can happen to those who ignore the second part!  The seal

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