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

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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