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While the VDA tight bend radius test is the standard in industry, it does not measure strain fracture limits. EWI has created a new bendability testing method that combines the VDA test with digital image correlation (DIC) to produce much more accurate results. The experiments conducted to validate this new approach tested seven different advanced...

We are pleased to welcome IMMI to EWI membership. IMMI develops, designs, tests, and manufactures safety restraints and systems for car seats, heavy trucks, school buses, recreational/off road, military, fire/EMS, motor coach, and construction vehicles. The privately owned company is headquartered in Westfield, Indiana, with seven additional global facilities. IMMI is also home to the...

EWI and MTI, developers of the new joining methodology low force friction welding, have continued a series of materials studies over the past year to qualify the new process for a variety of metals. A new paper by EWI Senior Technology Leader Jerry Gould, Application of Low Force Friction Welding to a 6061-T6 Aluminum Alloy,...