Karen Davies is a technical marketing manager at Mecmesin Ltd. (West Sussex, United Kingdom). For more information, call +44 (0)1403 799979, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.mecmesin.com.
Compression tests are used to determine how a product or material reacts when it is compressed, squashed, crushed or flattened by measuring fundamental parameters that determine the specimen behavior under a compressive load.