Technical and Testing Services: Advanced Materials Testing

Advanced Materials Testing

 

Abrasive/erosive wear tests

  • ASTM G65: Dry Sand Rubber Wheel Abrasion
  • ASTM B611: Slurry, Steel Wheel Abrasion
  • ASTM C633: Coating adhesion testing
  • Hot erosion testing up to 600C, silica or alumina abrasive
  • Slurry jet impingement for wet erosion/corrosion tests
  • Abrasion resistance (Taber Abraser Dual Head)
  • Impact-wear testing (8 - 200 J)

Corrosion testing

  • Linear Polarization Resistance (LPR)
  • Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)
  • Electrochemical Noise
  • Electrical Resistance (ER) probes
  • Hastelloy C Autoclave with T to 400°C and P to 2,000 psi
  • Sour Tests: NACE TM0284, TM0177 (Methods A, B, D), EFC16
  • Regular and Cyclic Slow Strain Rate Testing (SSRT) at high pressure and temperature sour environments: NACE TM01, ASTM G129
  • Rising Step Load Test: ASTM F1624
  • ASTM A262, A923, G150, G48
  • Hydrogen Permeation: ASTM G148 and by concentration monitoring based on thermal conductivity

Mechanical testing

  • Hardness (Rockwell, Vickers, Knoop, Shore, Barcol)
  • Charpy/Izod impact
  • Dye penetrant
  • Fracture toughness testing
  • Tensile, bend, compressive and fatigue
    • Instron 3366 Electro-mechanical 1kN to 10kN
    • Instron 4302 electro-mechanical to 10kN
    • Instron 8501 servo-hydraulic to 100kN
    • Instron 600DX high-capacity hydraulic to 600 KN
    • Satec Electromechanical high-capacity to 500 kN
    • Chambers and furnaces for testing at low (-50°C) and high temperatures (1500oC)

 Materials evaluation

  • Visual inspection, Dye penetrant
  • Metallograghy and microscopy
  • Image analysis
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with EDX analyzer
  • X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), ICP, AA, XRF, FTIR
  • Matec Instruments 6-axis C-Scan
  • ASTM C-177 Guarded Hot Plate
  • Particle size analysis, surface roughness (0.5 -250 mm)
  • Non-Contact Profilometer for the analysis and characterization of micro-scale corrosion pits and macro-size wear marks
  • Membrane characterization: pore size, surface area, permeability, absolute density, bubble point
  • Minolta Spectrophotometer and Glossmeter
  • Dilatometer (to 1400oC), melt index

Thermal analysis

  • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC): DSC Q100
  • Thermo-Mechanical Analyzer (TMA): TMA 2940
  • Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA): DMA 930
  • Differential Thermal Analyzer (DTA): 1600DTA
  • Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA): SDT Q600

Materials processing

  • Air, vacuum, and controlled atmosphere furnaces up to 2200°C
  • Controlled cooling hot plate press
  • Cold isostatic press -6² I.D. x 24² deep, 60,000 psi
  • Grinding mills-attrition mill, ball mills, vibromill
  • High energy ultrasonic probe
  • Sectioning/dicing saws
  • Nitriding, boronizing, surface hardening
  • Spray dryers and tape caster