Tuesday was a day of interruption. I was post curing a panel in the oven and so I had to check and record the temperature every 5 minutes of ramp up and every half hour or so thereafter. The time between checking I was trying to run some compressions and program Type I ASTM D638 specimens into the waterjet. The day ended with statically failing the last bladder panel. (My bladder problems have now been resolved).

Wednesday, I spent more time with the waterjet and the Type I ASTM D638 in addition to sawing and shipping a panel. I prepared two DCB fatigues, and ran one. On top of that, I spent 4 hours using the wet saws (a large 14" blade wet saw and a small tile saw) just to make a dozen specimen.

Today was spent finding the crack on some of those dozen specimen, preparing the hinges and putting the crack gauges on. I was able to at least witness the fruits of this labor prove what we already knew: the test yeilds poor results that are difficult to interpret into any meaningful result. So, we will keep running them in futility because of contractual obligations. This was interrupted occasionally with DCB fatigue efforts and faulty hinge work. Now to finish the day, I get to sit down and run some compressions.

NOTE: after this post, waterjet will be replaced with WJ so I stop getting waterjet ads on the side of my blog.