Technical Committees / Committee E28 on Mechanical Testing

ASTM Workshop on the History of Mechanical Testing
November 13, 2011
Tampa, FL


Development of the Kirkaldy Testing Museum from 1980
Hugh MacGillivray, Tim Crichton, Peter Skilton and Denis Smith

Impact Testing Yesterday and Today
Enrico Lucon and Chris McCowan, NIST

The History of Tinius Olsen
Earl A. Ruth, Tinius Olsen Testing Machine Company

Johan August Brinell - Inventor of the Brinell Test and a Pioneer in the Metallurgical Research of the Properties of Steel and Iron
Martin Öberg, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

The First Instron® Test Machine
Joseph Amaral, Instron

The History of Mechanical Testing
Stanley P. Rockwell, Charles H. Wilson and Wilson Instruments Co.