puristuskoeella
Puristuskoeella is a Finnish-language term that appears in discussions of material testing. The word combines puristuskoe, meaning compression test, with the adessive suffix -lla, producing a form that can be translated roughly as “in the compression test” or “the compression-test setup.” In practice, puristuskoeella is used to refer to the specimen or the fixture in which a specimen is placed during a compression test, or more broadly to the configuration of equipment and procedures used for such testing. The exact usage varies by author, and the term is not a standard designation in formal testing standards.
In a typical compression test, a specimen is aligned between the jaws of a universal testing machine
Standards for compression testing are maintained by international and national bodies such as ISO, EN, and
See also: compression test, universal testing machine, material testing standards.