Lithium-ion batteries have become the quiet workhorses of the energy transition, but the way they are designed and tested has long been slow, expensive, and heavily empirical. Machine learning is now ...

A universal testing machine (UTM) can carry out a broad spectrum of tests, applying tensile and compression forces and assessing the test specimen’s load-displacement response. A key component of the ...

Material testing is important in big industry, where manufacturers must be able to trust the properties of the raw materials they’re using. The rest of us generally take a supplier’s word for it that ...

A material’s hardness relates to its mechanical resistance when subjected to mechanical indentation by another harder body. Diamond is considered the hardest natural material and is typically used for ...