MechMat: Tensile Testing and Design Lab


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MechMat: TENSILE Testing – YouTube playlist

Mechanics of Materials – Tensile Testing and Design Lab
We provide guidelines for how to perform tensile testing and how we might go about designing a mechanical component that might need to withstand specified loading.

Special thanks to Milan Simonovic and the MAE staff for putting together these testing stations.

Instructional Video with Larger Fonts (Use this One)

MechMat: Instructional Video for Tensile Testing
Date: September 26, 2023

Instructional Videos with Smaller Fonts (Extra)

MechMat Lab: Tensile Testing of an Aluminum Sample
Date: September 22, 2023
MechMat Lab: Tensile Testing of Paper – Changing the Grips

Colab

MechMat – Tensile Testing – Colab IPython Jupyter Notebook

Questions and a PowerPoint File to Keep Track of Data

Tensile Testing Lab – Questions (pdf)
Tensile Testing Lab – Questions and Space for Answers (PowerPoint File)

For online complementary information, see our YouTube Channel and the Wikibook.

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