Posts by Andrew Bird

  Registration is now open for our 2018 Conference, which will be kindly hosted by the Institute of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics (IMM) at RWTH Aachen University. Micro Materials Conferences are a unique opportunity to speak to and learn from our applications experts as well as our users from all over Europe, enabling you…

  Micro Materials is pleased to announce the launch of the CORE range, five new instruments which cover key experimental techniques in nano and micro-mechanical testing. The new product range includes: CORE nanoindentation system CORE microindentation system CORE nano-scratch tester CORE micro-scratch tester CORE nano-impact tester   The CORE range of compact dedicated test instruments have…

Nanoindentation is a well-known methodology for testing the hardness of very small volumes of material, and sometimes even single crystals, by using a conical or pyramidal indenter tip to deform the material. Over time nanomechanical testing techniques have been refined with the introduction of commercially available high temperature testing equipment. Why test at higher temperatures?…

Micro Materials are pleased to announce that the maximum load of the high load head for the NanoTest Vantage systems has been extended to 30 N.

Micro Material Ltd’s 15th European User Meeting took place on 11th and 12th November 2015, kindly hosted by the Dept of Mechanical Engineering at Lund University in southern Sweden. Thirty five participants from 9 countries attended and, on the first day, heard presentations from our own applications specialists covering nano-mechanical and tribological testing of DLC…