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Beyond Traditional DMA: What Are You Missing Without Real High Force DMA?

Tuesday, September 15, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

 


This webinar will highlight the significance of High Force DMA for predicting and evaluating material characteristics in real-world applications. It will demonstrate how this characterization method can provide critical information about changes in material stiffness/load-bearing capacity, heat dissipation, and damping characteristics under different service and environmental conditions, such as loading frequency and temperature.

Another important yet often underexplored topic covered in this study is the importance of High Force DMA testing for final product performance evaluation, in addition to material-level characterization with traditional DMA testing. By performing testing on common sporting goods such as running shoes and tennis balls with unique 3D High Force DMA methods, this study demonstrates that a product manufacturer can acquire highly critical information about end-product performance that may not be possible to acquire with conventional DMA testing.

What You Will Learn:


  • An overview of the mechanical testing instrument portfolio
  • An introduction to the DMA characterization method
  • How High Force DMA characterizes the heel and forefoot regions of a running shoe under varying running speeds and temperatures
  • How High Force DMA compares tennis balls from different manufacturers on viscoelastic properties under varying service conditions
  • Where High Force DMA fills the gap left by material-level R&D testing and product-level QC testing
  • The critical factors that determine whether your High Force DMA data is reliable

Who Should Attend?


This webinar is ideal for materials scientists, R&D and product development engineers, and quality control professionals in the polymer, elastomer, and advanced materials industries who want to understand how High Force DMA can bridge material-level characterization and real-world product performance evaluation.


Meet the Speakers



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Shoab Chowdhury

Applications Engineer
Waters Materials Sciences Division (Formerly TA Instruments)

Shoab’s background is in mechanical engineering, and he completed his Ph.D. from Clemson University, where he performed research on multi-stable composite materials. After graduation, he joined TA Instruments as a Field Applications Engineer. He has published several journal articles and conference papers on fatigue analysis and environmental response, and has developed mathematical, FEA, and machine learning models to predict failure characteristics and long-term material performance during service. His scientific interest is driven toward mechanical testing and characterization of composites, medical devices/implants, and polymers.

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