| Bend Test | Used to determine the soundness of a welded joint by use of a wrap-around or plunger style testing fixture. |
| Failure Analysis | Determines the cause of failure through material testing and analysis of operating conditions. |
| Fillet Weld Fracture | Involves breaking the welded joint with force and then visually inspecting the fractured area to determine weld penetration and quality. |
| Tensile Test | Measures the strength of groove welds by applying continuous force on the test specimens to calculate the ultimate strength of a welded joint. |
| Charpy Impact Test | Determines the amount of energy absorbed by a material during impact at decreased temperatures. |
| Chemical Analysis | Performed using optical emissions spectrometry for material composition of iron, cobalt, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and copper alloys. |
| Nick Break | Involves breaking the welded joint with force and then visually inspecting the fractured area to determine weld penetration and quality. |
| Macro Etch | Metallographic examination at 10x or less to reveal cracks, slag inclusion, blowholes, shrinkage porosity, weld penetration, and the heat affected zone between the weld metal and the base metal. |
| Micro Etch | Metallographic examination at greater than 10x to reveal cracks and inclusions of microscopic size, grain boundaries and solidification structures of weld metal, heat affected zone and the base metal. |
| Metallographic Preparation | Sectioning, Mounting, and Polishing are performed in conjunction with one another to hold small parts for cross section etching and examination. This allows for evaluation of very small parts that would otherwise be inaccessible to destructive examination. |
| Brinell Hardness | Typically done on materials that have a grain structure too course for Rockwell or Vickers testing using a 10 mm ball indenter and a 3000 kg load. |
| Rockwell Hardness | Consists of indenting the test material with a diamond cone or hardened steel ball indenter. The advantage is the rapid testing time on hard materials. |
| Vickers Microhardness | Using a diamond shaped indenter and loads less than 1 kg of force. It is useful for a variety of applications such as testing very thin materials like foils, measuring individual microstructures within a larger matrix, or measuring the hardness gradients of a part along the cross section. |
| Vickers Macrohardness | Using a diamond shaped indenter and loads greater than 1 kg of force.It is typically used for hardness surveys of a weld in cross section. |
Mechanical Testing Lab Services
Nondestructive Testing Lab Services
Nondestructive Testing Methods
Documentation
Test Submittal
Lab Accreditations