New application studies now available

The Application Studies library in Exponent Connect continues to expand with the addition of new methods and fixtures that are available to use. These studies demonstrate a viable test method for a wide range of specific products, and also act as an ideal starting point for studying similar products. Detailed reports present typical results and interpretation and included projects ready to automatically load all of the files necessary to get testing.

The following studies and projects have been added in version 7.0.6.0 – so here’s what we’ve been working on:

Cosmetics

Suppleness measurement of hair tresses (HAIR4/HSR)

Dairy

Cheese relaxation measurement and analysis using rheology equations (CHE6/P45)

Fruit

Compression measurement on cob nuts to measure the force required to crack shells including max/min acceptance bands (NUT2/P40)

Compression of dried apple samples over three days of staling (APP2/OTC)

Materials

Bend testing of brittle ceramic samples for Young’s modulus and fracture stress (CER1/3PB)

Measurement of the vertical shear strength and bulk density of mouldable sand (SAND1/PVS)

Unconfined compression testing of soil samples (SOIL1/UYS)

Pasta

Bending resistance/flexure and elastic modulus of dry spaghetti: advanced analysis (PTA7/SFR)

Vegetables

Compression of hydrated vegetable protein (PRO1/OTC)

Firmness and stiffness measurement of tofu using a 6mm cylinder probe (TOFU2/P6)

There has also been the update of an existing project for tablet diametral testing: Failure behaviour, brittleness index and tensile strength of tablets due to diametral compression using a Cylinder Probe (TAB1/P25). This application study now includes background and a project for the testing of biconvex tablets that has a different formula to that of cylinder shaped tablets.

To gain access to all of these application studies and their ready-to-use projects update your Exponent Connect software to the latest version, free of charge.