Laboratory texture analysis
What is texture analysis?
Texture analysis (texturometry) involves characterising the mechanical and tactile properties of a semi-solid substance or a material for which humans perceive particular tactile properties. Texture analysis is generally used in the chemical, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Its aim is to measure and record the variations (force, deformation, time) in a material when a compressive or tensile force is applied to the product.
What parameters are analysed?
Various parameters are analysed during texture analysis:
- Hardness: The resistance to compression, useful for evaluating products such as pharmaceutical tablets or solid cosmetics.
- Elasticity: The ability of a material to regain its shape after being deformed. This is a key parameter for gels and creams.
- Adhesivity: A measure of the force required to lift a probe from a sample, used in products such as adhesives or viscous creams.
- Cohesion: The internal resistance of a material to being broken or fragmented, used for friable or brittle materials.
- Rupture: The tendency of a material to break when subjected to increasing force, as in tablets.
The FILAB laboratory can help you analyse the texture (texturometry) of your matrices.
Why choose FILAB?
Every production process has an impact on the texture of materials and can lead to failure. With this in mind, FILAB provides a range of services to help companies in the medical, pharmaceutical and materials sectors with their texture analysis issues . We provide our customers with our expertise in materials characterisation and rheology as well as a range of state-of-the-art analytical equipment .
Our technical resources for measuring the texture index
our analysis services
Analysis of the consistency of a cream
Assessing the resistance of polymers
Tablet texture control
Checking the elasticity of gels
