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A

• ABBE Refractometer
• Abbreviated Terms – Plastics (see Plastics – Symbols and Abbreviated Terms)
• Abrasion Elastomers
• Absorption Light (see Light Absorption)
• Absorption Sound Waves
• Accuracy Class
• Acoustic Emission
• Acoustic Microscopy (see Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM))
• Acoustic Properties
• Acoustic Resonance Analysis (see Resonance Analysis (Acoustic)
• Accreditation and Certification
• ADAM-GIBBS-realition (see Crystallinity)
• Adhesive Energy Release Rate
• Adhesive Joints – Determination of Characteristic Values
• Adhesion Glass Fibre (see Fibre–Matrix Adhesion)
• Adjustment
• Ageing
• Ageing Elastomers
• Air-Ultrasound
• Air-Ultrasound – Device Technology
• Alpha ROCKWELL Hardness
• Altstädt, Volker
• Angle specimen
• Anisotropic Deformation (see Deformation)
• Anisotropy
• A-Scan Technique
• Arcan-Specimen
• Arc-shaped Specimen (see C-shaped Test Specimen)
• Arrest Lines (see Fracture Types, Fractography and Waves and Arrest Lines)
• Ashing Method
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

B

• Bakelite
• Ball Indentation Hardness
• Ball Indentation Hardness IRHD (see IRHD Hardness)
• Ball or Pin Impression Method
• BARENBLATT Crack Model (see Crack Model according to BARENBLATT)
• Barcol Hardness
• Barrier Plastics
• BCS Crack Model (see Crack Models)
• BEGLEY and LANDES – J-Integral Estimation Method
• Bending Stiffness (see Stiffness and Bend Test Compliance)
• Bend Loading
• Bend Test
• Bend Test and Light Microscopy
• Bend Test and Sound Emission Analysis
• Bend Test Compliance
• Bend Test – Influences
• Bend Test – Shear Stress
• Bend Test – Specimen Preparation
• Bend Test – Specimen Shapes
• Bend Test – Test Influences
• Bend Test – Yield Stress
• Bent Strip Method
• Bierögel, Christian
• Bio-Plastics
• Bio-Plastics – Impact-Modified
• Blowholes (see Shrink Voids)
• Blumenauer, Horst
• Blunting Crack Tip (see Stretch Zone, in-situ Tensile Test in ESEM with AE and Crack Opening)
• BOLTZMANN's Superposition Principle
• Boundary Surface (see Phase Boundary Surface)
• Brittle Fracture Promoting Factors
• Brittle-Tough Transition
• Brittle Fracture (see Fracture Types, Component Failure and Fractography)
• Brittle-Tough Transition Temperature
• B-Scan Technique
• BUCHHOLZ Hardness
• Bulk Density

C

• Calibration
• Campus®
• Capillary Rheometer
• Ceramography
• Characteristic Values (see Material Value)
• Charpy, Georges
• Charpy Impact Test (see Impact Test)
• Charpy Testing
• Clamping Jaws (see Specimen Clamping)
• Clip-on Strain Gauge (see Tensile Test, Path Measurement Technique)
• CLS-Specimen
• Cohesive Strength (see Fracture)
• Cohesive Zone Models
• Cold Stretching (see Tensile Test)
• Colour
• Colour Difference
• Colour Penetration Test
• Compact Tension Specimen
• Compact Tension Shear (CTS) Specimen
• Comparative Tracking Index (CTI) (see Creep Current Resistance)
• Compliance (see Tensile Test Compliance and Specimen Compliance)
• Compliance Method (see J-Compliance Method)
• Component Failure
• Component Testing
• Composite Materials Testing
• Composite Materials Testing – Requirements for Materials Testing Machines
• Composite Probes (see Ultrasonic Composite Sensors)
• Compression After Impact Test
• Compression Hardness
• Compressive Strength
• Compression Test
• Compression Test Arrangement
• Compression Test Compliance
• Compressive and Buckling Stiffness (see Stiffness)
• Constraint Factor (see J-Integral Concept and Toughness Temperature Dependence)
• Constant Tensile Load Method (see Tensile Creep Test)
• Continuous Vibration Test
• Continuum Mechanics
• Conventional Hardness Testing
• Corrected Beam Theory (CBT) (see Adhesive Joints – Determination of Characteristic Values)
• Correspondence Principle
• Crack
• Crack Formation (see Fracture Formation)
• Crack Growth (see Crack Propagation)
• Crack Initiation
• Crack Models
• Crack Model according to BARENBLATT
• Crack Model according to DUGDALE
• Crack Model according to GRIFFITH
• Crack Model according to IRWIN and Mc CLINTOCK
• Crack Opening
• Crack Opening Modes
• Crack Propagation
• Crack Propagation Energy
• Crack Propagation Stress Corrosion Cracking
• Crack Resistance (R) Curve
• Crack Resistance Curve – Examples
• Crack Resistance Curve – Experimental Methods
• Crack Resistance Curve – Elastomers Quasistatic
• Crack Tip Opening Displacement Concept (CTOD)
• Crack Toughness
• Craze-Types
• Craze (see Micromechanics & Nanomechanics)
• Crazing
• CRB-Test (Crack Round Bar Test) (see Full Notch Creep Test (FNCT) and Pennsylvania Edge Notch Tensile (PENT) Test)
• Creep Behaviour – Creep Compression Test
• Creep Behaviour – Determination
• Creep Behaviour – Flexural Creep Test
• Creep Behaviour – Creep Internal Compression Test
• Creep Behaviour – Creep Compression Test
• Creep Behaviour – Recovery Test
• Creep Behaviour – Tensile Creep Test
• Creep Compression Test
• Creep Current Resistance
• Creep Modulus (see Creep Behaviour – Determination)
• Creep Path Formation (see Tracking)
• Creep Plastics
• Crescent Specimen
• Crosshead Speed
• Crystallinity
• Cross-linking Elastomers
• C-shaped Test Specimen
• C-Scan Technique
• CT-Specimen
• CTS-Specimen
• Curing

D

• Damage Analysis (see Failure Analysis – Basics)
• Damage Analysis of Plastic Products (see Failure Analysis Plastics Products, VDI Guideline 3822)
• DCB-Specimen (Double-Cantilever Beam)
• De BROGLIE equation (see Resolution Microscope)
• Defect Density (see Tensile Test Event-related Interpretation)
• Deformation
• Deformation Behaviour of Human Cartilage
• Deformation Mechanisms
• Deformation Rate
• Deformation Velocity
• Degree of Cross-Linking Elastomers
• Density
• DENT-Specimen (Double Edge-Notched Tension Specimen)
• Depth of Field Microscope
• Dielectric Loss Factor
• Dielectric Properties
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
• Dispersion
• Drives Materials Testing Machines
• D-Scan Technique
• Ductility Plastics
• DUGDALE Crack Model (see Crack Model according to DUGDALE)
• Durability Elastomers
• Dynamic-mechanical Analysis (DMA) – General Principles
• Dynamic-mechanical Analysis (DMA) – Bend Loading
• Dynamic-mechanical Analysis (DMA) – Tensile Stress
• Dynamic-mechanical Analysis (DMA) – Torsional Stress
• Dynstat Impact Test (see Impact Test)

E

• Effective Crack Length
• Ehrenstein, Gottfried W.
• Elasticity
• Elastic Modulus
• Elastic Modulus – Examples and Material Values
• Elastic Modulus – Ultrasonic Measurement
• Elastomers
• Elastomer Dispersion Filler
• Electrical Conductivity
• Electrical Strength
• Electro-mechanical Force Transducer
• Electron Microscopy
• Electronic Instrumentation
• Electronic Speckle Pattern Interferometry (ESPI)
• Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) (see Electrical Conductivity)
• Elongation at Break (see Tensile Strength)
• Elongational Viscosity
• ELS-Specimen
• Emission (see Acoustic Emission)
• ENF-Specimen (End-Notched Flexure)
• 4 End-Notched Flexure Specimen
• Energy Balance ICIT
• Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDX)
• Energy Elasticity
• Energy Fracture Criterion (see Energy Release Rate)
• Energy Release Rate
• Entanglements (see Polymers & Structure, Entropy Elasticity and Degree of Cross-Linking Elastomers)
• Entropy Elasticity
• Entry Point (see Sink Mark)
• Environmental-SEM (ESEM)
• Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance
• Equivalent Energy Concept – Application Limits
• Equivalent Energy Concept – Basics
• Errors
• Error Limit
• Essential Work of Fracture (EWF)-Concept
• EULER's Buckling (see Stiffness)
• Exfoliation (see Laser Silicate-reinforced Polymers)
• Experimental Compliance Method (ECM) (see Adhesive Joints – Determination of Characteristic Values)
• Extended CTOD Concept

F

• Failure Analysis – Basics
• Failure Analysis Plastics Products, VDI Guideline 3822
• Fatigue
• Fatigue Strength
• Fatigue Crack Propagation Elastomers
• Fibre Agglomeration
• Fibre Formation (see Fracture Types, Craze-Types and Fracture Parables)
• Fibre–Matrix Adhesion
• Fibre-reinforced Plastics
• Fibre-reinforced Plastics Fracture Model
• Fibre Orientation
• Fibre Content (see Ashing Method)
• Fibrillation (see Crazing, Craze-Types and Multiple Crazing)
• Filler (see Particle-filled Thermoplastics)
• Film Testing
• Fixed-arm Peel Test
• Flammability
• Flexural Creep Test
• Flexural Modulus
• Flexural Strength
• Flexural Test (see Bend Test)
• FLORY-HUGGINS Interaction Parameter (see Degree of Cross-Linking Elastomers)
• FLORY-REHNER Theory (see Degree of Cross-Linking Elastomers)
• Four End-Notched Flexure (4ENF)Specimen (see 4 ENF-Specimen)
• Four Point Bend Test (see Bend Test and Bend Test – Influences)
• Fractography
• Fracture
• Fracture Behaviour
• Fracture Behaviour of Plastics Components
• Fracture Criterion (see Energy Release Rate)
• Fracture Energy (see Fracture Formation and Fracture)
• Fracture Formation
• Fracture Mechanical Testing
• Fracture Mechanics
• Fracture Mechanics Test Specimens (see Specimen for Fracture Mechanics Tests)
• Fracture Modes
• Fracture Mirror
• Fracture Parables
• Fracture Process Zone
• Fracture Safety Criterion
• Fracture Surface
• Fracture Time (see ICIT – Experimental Conditions, Frequency Responcse Control and Plastic Hinge Model)
• Fracture Toughness (see Fracture Mechanics)
• Fracture Types
• Free Energy (see Surface Energy and Rubber Elasticity)
• Free Falling Dart Method
• Freezing Time
• Frequency Analysis
• Frequency Response Control
• Friction (see Bend Test – Influences)
• Friction Force
• F-Scan Technique
• FTIR Spectroscopy
• Full Notch Creep Test (FNCT)

G

• Gas Bubbles
• Geometry Criterion
• Geometry Function
• Glass Fibre Content (see Ashing Method)
• Glass Fibre Length Distribution – Matrix Resolution
• Glass Fibre Orientation
• Glass Transition Temperature
• Gloss
• Gloss Measurement
• Glowing Hot-Wire Test
• Goodyear, Charles Nelson
• Grellmann, Wolfgang
• Griffith, Alan Arnold
• GRIFFITH's crack model (see Crack Model according to GRIFFITH)
• GRIFFITH's Criteria
• GRIFFITH's Theory

H

• Hardness
• Hardness Revaluation (see Hardness)
• HAGEN-POISSEUILLE-Equation (see Capillary Rheometer)
• Heat Conductivity (see Thermal Conductivity)
• Heat Distortion Temperature HDT
• Heat Resistance
• HERTZIAN Pressure
• Heterogeneity
• HF-Scan
• High-pressure Capillary Rheometer (see Capillary Rheometer)
• High-speed Tensile Test
• HOOKE's Law
• Hole Formation Films
• Hole Formation Plastics
• HRR Crack Model (see Crack Models)
• HUYGENS' Principle (see Sound Pressure)
• Hybrid Methods of Plastic Diagnostics
• Hybrid Methods, Examples

I

• ICIT (see Instrumented Charpy Impact Test)
• ICIT – Energy Method
• ICIT – Experimental Conditions
• ICIT – Extended Stop-Block Method
• ICIT – Influence of Pendulum Hammer Velocity
• ICIT – Limits of Fracture Mechanics Evaluation
• ICIT – Nonlinear Material Behaviour
• ICIT – Specimen Length Method
• ICIT – Stop Block Method
• ICIT – Support Span Method
• ICIT – Types of Impact Load–Deflection Diagrams
• ICIT with AE
• Immersion Method (see Density)
• Imaging Ultrasonic Testing
• Impact Loading Free-falling Dart Test
• Impact Loading High-Speed Testing
• Impact Loading Pendulum Impact Tester
• Impact Loading Plastics
• Impact Test
• Implant Testing
• In-situ Peel Test (see Peeling Process)
• In-situ Tensile Test in ESEM with AE
• In-situ Tensile Test in NMR
• In-situ Ultramicrotomy
• Indentation Fracture Mechanics
• Indentation Modulus
• Indenter
• Index of Refraction (see Refraction Index)
• Induction Time (see Thermostability PVC)
• Inertial Load
• Initial Crack Length
• Instrumentation (see Electronic Instrumentation)
• Instrumented Adhesion Test
• Instrumented Charpy Impact Test (ICIT)
• Instrumented Hardness Measurement – Creep
• Instrumented Hardness Measurement – Indentation Depth Measurement with Modified Contact Foot
• Instrumented Hardness Measurement – Relaxation
• Instrumented Hardness Measurement with Tempering
• Instrumented Hardness Testing – Method & Material Parameters
• Instrumented Puncture Impact Test
• Instrumented Scratch Testing
• Instrumented Tensile Impact Test (ITIT)
• Instrumented Tensile Impact Test (ITIT), Examples
• Insulation Resistance
• Intercalated Structure (see Layer Silicate-reinforced Polymers)
• Interface (see Phase Boundary Surface)
• Interlaminar Shear Strength
• IRHD Hardness
• IRWIN and Mc CLINTOCK crack model (see Crack Model according to IRWIN and Mc CLINTOCK)
• IRWIN-KIES Equation (see Adhesive Joints – Determination of Characteristic Values)
• ITIT (see Instrumented Tensile Impact Test)
• IZOD Impact Test (see Impact Test)

J

• J-Compliance Method
• J-Integral Concept
• J-Integral Evaluation Methods (Overview)
• J-Integral Estimation Methods of

- BEGLEY and LANDES (see BEGLEY and LANDES – J-Integral Estimation Method (BL))

- RICE, PARIS and MERKLE (see RICE, PARIS and MERKLE – J-Integral Estimation Method (RPM))

- SUMPTER and TURNER (see SUMPTER and TURNER – J-Integral Estimation Method (ST))

- MERKLE and CORTEN (see MERKLE and CORTEN – J-Integral Estimation Method (MC))

- KANAZAWA (see KANAZAWA – J-Integral Estimation Method (K))

• JTJ-Concept

K

• Kausch, Hans-Henning
• KIRCHHOFF's Law of Radiation (see Thermography)
• KNOOP Hardness
• KANAZAWA – J-Integral Estimation Method

L

• LAMBERT-BEER's Law (see Light Absorption)
• Lamb Waves (see Ultrasonic Plate Waves Sensors)
• Laser Angle-Scanner
• Laser Cross-Unit
• Laser Doppler-Scanner
• Laser Double-Scanner
• Laser Extensometry
• Laser Extensometry – Local Strain Control
• Laser Heterogeneity of Strain Distribution
• Laser Longitudinal–Transverse Scanner
• Laser Multi-Scanner
• Laser Parallel-Scanner
• Layer Silicate-reinforced Polymers
• Laser Sintering Process
• Laser TMA-Scanner
• Levels of Knowledge in Fracture Mechanics
• Lid-opening Test
• Light Absorption
• Light Remission (see Remission Light)
• Light Transmission (see Transmission Light)
• Linear-elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM) (see Fracture Mechanics)
• Linear-viscoelastic Behaviour
• Liquid Pycnometer Method (see Density)
• Load Cell (see Elektro-Mechanical Force Transducer and Piezoelectric Force Transducer)
• Load Framework
• Low-pressure Capillary Rheometer (see Capillary Rheometer)

M

• Machine Compliance
• Macrodispersion Degree Elastomers
• Magnification Microscope
• Manufacturer of Material Testing Machines
• Martens, Adolf
• Material Parameter
• Materialography
• Material Science & Plastics
• Materials Science
• Materials Technology & Materials Science
• Material Testing Machine
• Material & Werkstoff
• Material Value
• Materials Testing
• MAXWELL Model
• Measure
• Measure Deviation
• Measured Value
• Measured Value Accuracy
• Measured Variable
• Measuring Accuracy
• Measuring Device Monitoring
• Measuring Uncertainty
• Melt Flow Index (see Melt Mass-Flow Rate and Melt Volume-Flow Rate)
• Melt Mass-Flow Rate
• Melt Temperatur (see Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and Crystallinity)
• Melt Volume-Flow Rate
• Menges, Georg
• MERKLE and CORTEN – J-Integral Estimation Method
• Metallography
• MFR (see Melt Mass-Flow Rate)
• Michler, Goerg Hannes
• Microcrack (see Crack)
• Micro-Damage Limit
• Microhardness (see Hardness)
• Micro-IRHD (see IRHD Hardness)
• Micromechanics & Nanomechanics
• Microplastic & Nanoplastic
• Micropores
• Microscopic Structure
• Micro-Tensile Tests
• Microtomy
• Mixed-Mode Crack Propagation
• MMB-Specimen
• Mobile Hardness Measurement
• Modulus of Compressibility (see Energy Elasticity)
• Modulus of Elasticity (see Elastic Modulus)
• Mohs, Carl Friedrich Christian
• Morphology (see Microscopic Structure)
• Moulded Part (see Moulding Compound)
• Moulding Compound
• Moulding Compound Test
• MPK-Procedure MPK-ICIT
• MPK-Procedure MPK-ITIT
• MTS (Maximum Tensile Stress) Criterion (see Mixed-Mode Crack Propagation
• Multiaxial Stress State
• Multiple Crazing
• Multiple Fracture UD Tapes
• Multipurpose Test Specimen

N

• Nanocomposite (see Layer Silicate-reinforced Thermoplastics)
• Nanoindentation Testing
• Nase, Michael
• Necking Elongation (see Tensile Test Uniform Elongation)
• Non-destructive Polymer Testing
• Non-destructive Testing (NDT)
• Normative Strain (see Tensile Strength)
• Notch
• Notch Geometry
• Notch Impact Strength (see Notched Impact Test)
• Notch Insertion (see Notching)
• Notch Sensitivity
• Notched Impact Test
• Notched Tensile Impact Test
• Notching
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR Spectroscopy)

O

• Object Raster Method
• Orientation (see Tensile Test Residual Stresses Orientations)
• Overview about J-Integral Evaluation Methods (see J-Integral Evaluation Methods (Overview))
• ODCB or MC-DCB-Specimen

P

• PARIS–ERDOGAN Equation (see Fatigue Crack Propagation Elastomers)
• Parameter (see Material Parameter)
• Particle-filled Thermoplastics
• Peel Angle
• Peel Behaviour – Modelling
• Peel-Cling Test
• Peel-Cling Test Cyclic
• Peel-Cling Test Extented
• Peel Curve (see Peel Force – Fracture Path Diagram)
• Peel Force
• Peel Force – Fracture Path Diagram
• Peeling Process
• Peel Properties of Peel Systems
• Peel Test
• Pendulum Hammer Velocity (see ICIT – Influence of Pendulum Hammer Velocity)
• Pennsylvania Edge Notch Tensile (PENT) Test
• Peripheral Fibre Strain
• Permeation
• Phase Boundary Surface
• Piezoelectric Ceramic
• Piezoelectric Ceramic Transducer
• Piezoelectric Effect (see Piezoelectric Force Transducer and Piezo Ceramics)
• Piezoelectric Force Transducer
• PLANCK's constant (see Resolution Microscope)
• Plane Stress and Strain State
• Plastic Component
• Plastic Films & Varnishes – Surface Technology
• Plastic Deformation (see Deformation)
• Plastic Hinge Model
• Plastics
• Plastics – Symbols and Abbreviated Terms
• Plastic Zone
• Plastography
• Poisson's Ratio
• Polarisation Optical Examination
• Polymer
• Polymer Blend
• Polymer Diagnostic
• Polymer Service GmbH Merseburg
• Polymers & Structure
• Polymer Testing
• Pourability
• Processing Shrinkage
• Producer Material Testing Machines (see Manufacturer Material Testing Machines)
• Proof Tracking Index (CTI) (see Creep Current Resistance)
• Prosthesis Pull-through Test
• Pulse-Echo Ultrasonic Technique
• Puncture Impact Test
• Pure Shear-Specimen
• Push-Out Test

Q

• Quasi-static Test Methods
• Quasi-static Short-term tests (see Elastic Modulus)

R

• Radusch, Hans-Joachim
• Raster Reflection Method
• R-Curve Concept (see Crack Resistance (R) Curve)
• Ramps, Bars and Steps
• Rebound Resilience Elastomers
• Reflection Light
• Reflection Sound Waves (see Ultrasonic Waves Reflection)
• Refraction Index
• Refraction Law (see Refraction Light and Refraction Sound Waves)
• Refraction Light
• Refraction Sound Waves
• Refractive Index (see Refraction Index)
• Reincke, Katrin
• Relation Factor (see Plastic Hinge Model)
• Relaxation Behaviour Determination
• Relaxation Plastics
• Remission Light
• Repose Angle
• Residual Compressive Strength (see Compression After Impact Test)
• Residual Stress ( see Tensile Test Residual Stresses Orientations)
• Resolution Laser Extensometer Device System
• Resolution Material Testing Machine
• Resolution Microscope
• Resonance Analysis (Acoustic)
• RICE, PARIS and MERKLE – J-Integral Estimation Method
• Rise Time Electronic Measuring Chain (see ICIT – Experimental Conditions)
• Rheometry
• ROCKWELL Hardness
• Roll Ring Test
• Rotational Rheometer
• Round Specimen
• Round Robin Test
• Rubber Elasticity

S

• Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM)
• Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• SCB-Specimen
• Scratch Hardness
• Scratch Resistance
• Scratch Test
• Sealed Seam
• Secant Modulus (see Flexural Modulus, Elastic Modulus and Compression Test)
• Seidler, Sabine
• SENB-Specimen (Single-Edge-Notched-Bend)-specimen
• SENT-Specimen (Single-Edge-Notched-Tension)-specimen
• Servo-hydraulic Testing Machine
• Shear Band Formation
• Shear Fracture (see Fracture Types)
• Shear Modulus
• Shear Viscosity
• Shearography
• SHORE Hardness
• SHORE Hardness – Material Development Elastomers
• Short Symbols – Plastics (see Plastics – Symbols and Abbreviated Terms)
• Short-beam Bend Test (see Interlaminar Shear Strength)
• Short-fibre Reinforced Plastics
• Shunt Lid Pull-trough Test (see Prosthesis Pull-trough Test)
• Shrink Voids
• Shrinkage
• Shrinkage Test
• Simple Beam Theory (SBT) (see Adhesive Joints – Determination of Characteristic Values)
• Sink Mark
• Slenderness Ratio
• Slow Crack Growth
• Smart Materials
• SNEDDON-Williams-Equations (see Crack Model according to GRIFFITH)
• SNELLIUS' Law of Refraction (see Ultrasonic Birefringence, Ultrasonic Angle Beam Sensors and Refraction Light)
• Sonography (see Ultrasound Testing)
• Sound Absorption Coefficient (see Elastic Modulus)
• Sound Emission
• Sound Emission Analysis
• Sound Emission Experimental Conditions
• Sound Emission Testing
• Sound Power
• Sound Pressure
• Sound Test
• Sound Velocity
• Specimen
• Specimen Clamping
• Specimen Compliance
• Specimen for Fracture Mechanics Tests
• Specimen for Laser Sintering
• Specimen Shapes for Fatigue Tests (see Test Specimen for Fatigue Tests)
• Speed (see Velocity)
• Spherulitic Structure
• SPLIT-HOPKINSON Pressure Bar (SHPB) Test (see Strain Rate Applications)
• Squirter Technique
• Stability Time (see Thermostability PVC)
• Standard Atmospheres
• Standard Small Bar
• STEFAN-BOLTZMANN Constant (see Thermography)
• Stepped Isothermal Method, Macro Indentation Method
• Stepped Isothermal Method, Tensile Stress
• Stiffness (see also Machine Compliance and Specimen Compliance)
• Strain Gauge
• Strain Hardening Test (SHT)
• Strain Rate Applications
• Strain Rate Basics
• Strength
• Stretch Zone
• Stress
• Stress Cracking Corrosion
• Stress Cracking Resistance (see Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance)
• Stress Intensity Factor (see Fracture Mechanics and SENB-Specimen)
• SUMPTER and TURNER – J-Integral Estimation Method (ST) – J-integral estimation method
• Support Distance
• Support Span (see Support Distance)
• Surface
• Surface Energy
• Surface Resistance
• Surface Technology
• Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension
• Surface Testing Technology
• Swelling (see Water Absorption)

T

• TABOR Relationship
• Tangent Modulus (see Elastic Modulus and Shear Modulus)
• T-Peel Test
• TDCB-Specimen (Tapered-Double-Cantilever Beam-specimen)
• Tear Test
• Tearing Energy (see Trouser Specimen)
• Tearing Modulus
• Temperature Conductivity
• Temperature-modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TMDSC)
• Tensile Creep Test
• Tensile Impact Test
• Tensile Strain at Break (see Tensile Strength)
• Tensile Strength
• Tensile Test
• Tensile Test and Sound Emission Analysis
• Tensile Test Compliance
• Tensile Test Control
• Tensile Test Event-related Interpretation
• Tensile Test Influences
• Tensile Test Overlapping Creep Relaxation
• Tensile Test Residual Stresses Orientations
• Tensile Test True Stress–Strain Diagram
• Tensile Test Uniform Elongation
• Tensile Test Specimen (see Multipurpose Test Specimen)
• Test Climate
• Testing
• Testing of Adhesive Bonds (see SCB-Specimen)
• Testing of Composite Materials (see Composite Materials Testing)
• Testing Microcomponents
• Testing Plastic Packaging
• Test Piece
• Test Specimen (see Specimen)
• Test Specimen for Fatigue Tests
• Test Speed
• Thermal Conductivity
• Thermal Diffusivity (see Temperature Conductivity)
• Thermal Expansion Coefficient
• Thermal Strain Analysis
• Thermal Stress Analysis
• Thermoelastic Effect
• Thermography
• Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
• Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA)
• Thermoplastic Material
• Thermosets
• Thermostability PVC
• Threads, Tips and Films
• Three-point Bend Test (see Bend Test and Bend Test – Influences)
• Three-point Bend Specimen (see SENB-Specimen)
• Time–Temperature Shift Law
• Titration Method (see Density)
• TODCB-Specimen (see SCB-Specimen)
• Toughness
• Toughness Temperature Dependence
• Tracking
• Transmission Light
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Transmission Sound Waves
• Transverse Contraction (see Poisson's Ratio)
• Trapezoidal Specimen
• Triaxial Loading (see Multiaxial Stress State)
• Tribological Stress (see Stress)
• Trouser Specimen

U

• UD Tape (see Composite Materials Testing and Multiple Fracture UD Tapes)
• Ultramicrotomy
• Ultrasonic Angle Beam Sensors
• Ultrasonic Birefringence
• Ultrasonic Contact Impedance (UCI) Hardness
• Ultrasonic Composite Sensors
• Ultrasonic Direct Coupling
• Ultrasonic Imaging Inspection (see Imaging Ultrasonic Testing)
• Ultrasonic Immersion Bath Technique
• Ultrasonic Immersion Bath Sensors
• Ultrasonic Laser Excitation
• Ultrasonic Microscopy (see Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM))
• Ultrasonic Modulation
• Ultrasonic Phased Array Sensors
• Ultrasonic Plate Waves Sensors
• Ultrasonic Pulse-echo Technique (see Pulse-Echo Ultrasonic Technique)
• Ultrasonic Runtime Measurement
• Ultrasonic Sensors
• Ultrasonic Shock Wave Sensors
• Ultrasonic Standard Sensors
• Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Diffraction (TOFD) Technique
• Ultrasonic Transmission Technique
• Ultrasonic Transmitter(S)-Receiver(E) Sensors
• Ultrasonic Wall Thickness Measurement
• Ultrasonic Waves Reflection
• Ultrasonic Weld Inspection
• Ultrasound – Elastic Parameters
• Ultrasound-guided Waves
• Ultrasound Testing
• Uniaxial Stress State
• Uniform Elongation (see Tensile Test Uniform Elongation)
• Universal Hardness
• Universal Testing Machine (see Material Testing Machine)
• UODCB-Specimen (see SCB-Specimen)

V

• Vacuoles (see Shrink Voids)
• Value (see Material Value)
• Valve Control Test (see Lid-opening Test)
• Valve Movement Test
• Velocity
• Verification
• Vibration Fracture
• Vibration-induced Creep Fracture
• Vibration Strength
• Vibration Test (see Continuous Vibration Test)
• Vicat Softening Temperature
• Vickers Hardness
• Video Extensometry
• Viscoelasticity (see Linear-viscoelastic Behaviour and Viscoelastic Material Behaviour)
• Viscoelastic Material Behaviour
• Viscous Deformation (see Deformation)
• Viscosity
• Visual Inspection
• VOIGT-KELVIN Model
• Volume Resistance
• Volume Swelling Elastomers
• Vu-Khanh Method
• Vulcanization

W

• Water Absorption
• Wavelet Transform (see Frequency Analysis)
• Waves and Arrest Lines
• Wear (see Abrasion Elastomers)
• Williams, James Gordon
• WinICIT-Software
• Weld Line
• WU & FOWKES method (see Surface Tension and Interfacial Tension)
• WHEATSTONE's Bridge Circuit (see Strain Gauge, Electro-mechanical Force Transducer, and ICIT with AE)

Y

• YOUNG-DUPRÉ Equation (see Surface Energy)
• Young's Modulus (see IRHD Hardness and Elastic Modulus)
• Yield Fracture Mechanics (see Fracture Mechanics)
• Yield Point (see Yield Stress)
• Yield Stress

Categories

• Guest Contributions

• Acoustic Test Methods/Ultrasonics
• Ageing
• Bend Test
• Colour and Gloss
• Compression Test
• Creep Behaviour Plastics
• Damage Analysis/Component Failure
• Deformation
• Elastomers
• Electrical and Dielectrical Testing
• Fatigue
• Film Testing
• Fire Behaviour
• Fracture Mechanics
• Hardness
• Hybrid Methods
• Impact Tests
• Implant Testing
• Instrumented Impact Test
• Laser Extensometry
• Light
• Material Scientists/Polymer Scientists
• Materials Science/Materials Engineering
• Measurement Testing Technology (Measurement Data Aquisition)
• Morphology and Micromechanics
• Optical Field Measurement Methods
• Peel Test
• Plastics
• Process-related Properties
• Scientific Disciplines
• Specimen
• Specimen Preparation
• Stiffness/Compliance
• Stress Cracking Resistance
• Surface Testing Technology
• Tensile Test
• Thermoanalytical Methods
• Velocity