Overnight samples aren’t just for designers anymore. Last month, Material Bank quietly debuted its long-rumored consumer-facing platform, DesignShop. The site—with its browsable library of materials ...

Systematic, well-designed, and implementable research is the most effective way to solve many problems facing state departments of transportation (DOTs) administrators and engineers. Often, highway ...

Material selection is seldom as easy as pulling an available tube from the stock room. Good sample transport system design incorporates various factors in material selection. These include surface ...

Collecting samples for a project can present a huge time loss for design professionals. To solve this, Swatchbox is out on a mission to help design professionals around the world, by offering a ...

In general, a sample is a limited quantity of something which is intended to be similar to and represent a larger amount of that thing(s). The things could be countable objects such as individual ...

A solid sample material has to always be sufficiently prepared by homogenization and size reduction before exposure to physical or chemical analysis. Care should be taken that the analysis sample ...