Posts by Andrew Bird

A recent MRS bulletin article by Afrooz Barnoush, Peter Hosemann, Jon Molina-Aldareguia and Jeffrey M. Wheeler highlights the importance of small-scale mechanical testing in extreme environments – such as high temperature and high strain rate – for characterising materials under service conditions. Micro Materials specialise in testing under these extreme environments and are at the…

We hope all of our users and friends have been keeping well during this difficult time. Production and development work is picking up pace again at our Wrexham premises, while allowing all our employees to work as safely as possible. Our applications and support team is also available to continue assisting users during this time.…

Micro Materials and collaborators from the University of Leeds and Southeast University are pleased to present our latest publication in Tribology International: Micro-scale impact testing – A new approach to studying fatigue resistance in hard carbon coatings In this study micro-impact results on two commercial hard carbon coatings (Graphit-iC and Dymon-iC from Teer Coatings) on tool…

Nanoindentation provides a unique opportunity to probe the creep response of individual components or phases in complex microstructural materials that are not possible with conventional bulk testing techniques. In this Technical Note we present case studies that demonstrate the stability of the NanoTest for reliable creep measurements over long experiment durations, and under different environmental…

Micro Materials and collaborators from Palacký University Olomouc, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Olomouc are pleased to present our latest publication in Materials Science & Engineering A: High frequency acoustic emission monitoring in nano-impact of alumina and partially stabilised zirconia In this study…