Wyoming Test Fixtures, incorporated in 1988, is an outgrowth of the fixture design and fabrication activities conducted at the University of Wyoming by Dr. Don Adams and his colleagues for over 30 years, as well as his prior 12 years of industry design, analysis, and testing experience, 9 years of which were specifically in composite materials applications. Ms. Catherine O'Hare Adams joined the company in 2007 and is the Chief Operations Officer. Dr. Dan Adams, who has been working in Composite Material Research since 1977, joined Wyoming Test Fixtures in 2014.

Both Dr. Adams’ have used most of the many available test fixtures in their own funded research work at their respective universities, and thus are very familiar with their use and relative performance.  In fact, many test fixtures in common use today for testing composite materials were either developed or significantly modified at the University of Wyoming or the University of Utah by Dr. Don and/or Dr. Dan, and their research groups over the years.  Others have been developed directly by Wyoming Test Fixtures, Inc.  Dan and Don are also active in various standardization groups such as ASTM International and Composite Materials Handbook (CMH-17, formerly MIL Handbook 17), and have presented test methods seminars and short courses extensively in the United States and around the world.

Wyoming Test Fixtures shares with its customers the benefits of this active and continuous participation in new test method developments, and a strong background in mechanical design. We are dedicated to designing and fabricating mechanical test fixtures of the highest quality at the lowest possible prices. We are located in Salt Lake City, Utah and all of our test fixtures are manufactured in the United States. We offer our assistance in ensuring that our fixtures meet our customer’s specific needs and in designing custom fixtures to customer specifications.

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Don Adams

President and Founder

Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Director of the Composite Materials Research Group at the University of Wyoming. Don has over 60 years of material testing experience and is recognized as an international expert in composite material testing.

  • ASTM Fellow
  • American Society for Composite Fellow
  • SAMPE Fellow
  • ASTM Stinchcomb Award recipient
  • SAMPE Delmonte Award recipient
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Dan Adams

Vice-President

Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Director of the Utah Composites Lab at the University of Utah. Dan has 40 years of testing experience and teaches a two-day composites testing course. He regularly authors a Testing column in CompositesWorld Magazine.

  • ASTM Committee D30 (Composites) Vice Chair
  • Testing Working Group Co-Chair, CMH-17
  • ASTM Stinchcomb Award recipient
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Cate O'Hare Adams

Chief Operations Officer

15 years of experience running the business operations at Wyoming Test Fixtures. Cate holds an undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Certificate in Business Administration from Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program.