Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos, tech articles and more for almost two decades. She currently writes for CNET's Smart Home Section, MTVNews' tech section and for Live Science's reference ...

Here at Consumer Reports, we take dishwasher loading pretty seriously. For our performance tests, we load each dishwasher with 10 place settings of white ceramic dishes with baked-on food, then run it ...

Plastic strain refers to non-elastic deformation and can occur during specimen loading in a creep test. Plastic deformation can be measured using the hot-stepped loading process when the test is ...