Friction Materials and Brake pads

An important factor for brake noise reduction is tuning the resonance frequencies of the main components such as disc, caliper, bracket and brake pad, in order to harmonize them.  Brake pads can show a significant spread in the resonance frequencies…

Cement, Mortar and Concrete

Whether it is for testing new mix designs or testing for quality and reliability post production, the compressive strength and tensile strength are the most important mechanical tests executed on cementitious products. Tensile strength tests can be carried out to…

Grinding and Abrasives

GrindoSonic is the proven tool for quality testing, quality surveillance and material characterization in the grinding and abrasives industry and is successfully operated by industry and research institutes & universities alike. With its special focus on grinding materials and over…

Metallurgy

Metals have an extensive amount of physical properties, such as being good conductors, high melting points, high density, good malleability and good ductility, which gives a strong importance in a vast amount of applications. More than 90% of the materials…

Ceramics

For determining the dynamic elastic properties of ceramics, whether it is about (i) traditional ceramics such as pottery, bricks, abrasives, refractories and cement or (ii) new ceramics based on oxides, carbides, etc or about (iii) glasses, the Impulse Excitation Technique…