I received an email from a reader with a question about different kinds of reports and certificates dealing with calibration—a subject that I comment on from time to time.
With today’s demands for safe and reliable consumer products, it’s a sure bet that words like efficiency, throughput, repeatability, and safety are often being tossed around in quality assurance departments.
Dynamic mechanical analysis was first developed in the early to mid-1900s for determining the viscoelastic properties of plastics over a range of temperatures and test rates.
As the aerospace industry in Canada and around the world continues to increase its use of automat-ed composite manufacturing techniques to produce large aircraft components, the industry is eager to find solutions to manufacture reliable, safe, and cost effective composite structures.