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Taking Measure

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Steven Mates

Steven Mates has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Penn State University and has been at NIST since 1999. He currently works in high-speed experimental mechanics, but also has a background in fluid mechanics, fluid atomization and metals processing. When not in the lab, he loves to be active, with tennis and P90X training currently topping the activity list.

If I Had a Hammer … I’d Do Impact Testing

July 8, 2016

Right now, scientists all over the world are trying to understand how we get injured when our bodies are subjected to strong, dynamic loads – a hard body-check

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