INTRODUCTION The properties of materials are various, and according to the forces at work in the material and the

surrounding environment, their behavior differs. Nowadays when product quality and safety are being rigorously pursued, testing and inspection machines offer data which serve to guide the R&D on improved materials and products. High level technologies incorporating precision, electronics, control, optics, sensors, and information processing are concentrated in these testing and inspection machines, producing the evaluation system most suited to the objective of use.

Objective: To let the student become acquainted with material testing laboratory, the equipment available, and course requirement

Procedure: 1. Under the guidance of an instructor and staff member, visit the laboratory and notice where the general equipment is located. 2. Ask to be instructed in the operation of the Universal Testing Machine 3. Make a list of the major types of equipment available. Note the units of calibration and the dial division.

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