The Wikipedia entry for a Universal Testing Machine (UTM) defines it as: “A universal testing machine is used to test the tensile stress and compressive strength of materials. It is named after the fact that it can perform many standard tensile and compression tests on materials, components, and structures.”  This is very true, but perhaps overly simplistic.  We’ll try to explain some more capabilities of these machines in this post.

If you seek to learn about the ASTM D1876 T-Peel adhesive peel test, please read this article.  This page assumes you understand the test and you already own an an ADMET universal testing machine.  If your machine came preloaded from the factory with this test method installed, you can skip the "how to program" video.  Good luck, and call us should you have any questions.