02/06/2025
The frustration of trusting in a weather app that forecasts a sunny day, only to be drenched with rain, is a feeling that most people have experienced. The same discrepancy occurs in materials characterisation – without the right data inputs, outputs from modelling don’t always live up to reality. Here, Andrea Incardona, Application Engineer at Instron, explains how dynamic drop testing gives material developers confidence in their prototypes’ viability.