Testing for Consumer Products

This business is broadly classified into consumables and durables. The materials and design paradigms for each are different.

The consumables market places a high demand on plastic and paper packaging. Plastic components are blow molded or injection-molded with bottle caps, typically injection molded. Drop testing of these components is an important design requirement. Properties are needed for the simulation of all these stages. Storage of these products also places requires an understanding of the creep characteristics of the packages. Visco-elastic behavior is often characterized in this regard as well as classical creep

Also part of the consumables market are products like toothbrushes and razors which are designed with a high degree of precision. A wide range of design tools are used and the properties needed range widely, including properties for injection-molding, extrusion and non-linear structural analysis.

The durables market ranges from cell phones to computers to appliances. This market segment has sheet metal forming, injection molding and computer chip design as manufacturing processes. Needed design properties include those for computer simulation of sheet metal forming, injection molding and chip overmolding. Additionally, FEA methods are used for drop testing, non linear NVH, fatigue and creep assessments.

TestPaks typically ordered by this industry

Testpak ID Name
G-711 Abaqus Elastic and Plastic model (*ELASTIC *PLASTIC)
G-720 Abaqus Hyperelastic Incompressible (*HYPERELASTIC)
G-002 Moldflow/C-MOLD Post-Filling
G-910 MSC.MARC Creep/Stress Relaxation Model
G-709 Abaqus Finite Elastic Plasticity (*HYPERELASTIC *PLASTIC)
G-000 Moldflow/C-MOLD Filling
G-006 Moldflow/C-MOLD Uncorrected Isotropic Shrinkage
G-712 Abaqus Rate Dependent Viscoplastic (*RATE DEPENDENT)
Q-123 Extrusion Blow Molding Processability
G-007 Moldflow/C-MOLD Uncorrected Anisotropic Shrinkage

Tests typically ordered by this industry

Test ID Name
M-204 Tensile Stress-Strain, Strength, and Modulus
R-011 Capillary Rheology (1 Temperature)
M-206 Tensile Stress-Strain, Strength, Modulus and Poisson's Ratio
M-232 High Speed Tensile Stress-Strain
M-205 Tensile Properties of Elastomers
M-250 Tensile Creep
M-615 Creep-Relaxation by DMA-tensile, compressive or flex
M-410 Dynatup Instrumented Impact
SP-105 Specimen Machining Services
M-015 Flexural Modulus and Strength
Testing for Consumer Products
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