Kitchener

Automotive Testing

• Applied Pressure

• Applied Vacuum

• Data Acquisition

• Dimensional Stability

• Environmental Durability

• Fixture Design

• Force Vs Displacement

• Life Cycle

• Material Stress

• Mechanical Durability

• Proof Loading

• Step Stress

• Thermal Shock

• Vibration and Shock

Corrosion Testing

• Accelerated Corrosion

• Acidic Atmosphere

• CASS

• Cyclic Corrosion

• Filiform Corrosion

• Salt Spray

• Scab Corrosion

Simulated Environments

• Cyclic Corrosion

• Environmental Cycling

• Fogging

• Humidity

• Oven Aging

• Ozone

• QUV Exposure

• Salt Spray

• Sunlamp Exposure

• Thermal Shock

• Weather-o-meter

Ingress Protection

• IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP4K, IP5, IP6, IP7, IP8, IP9K

• IP5K, IP6X, IP6K

Physical, Mechanical, Surface Property Testing

• AATCC Gray Scale Evaluations

• Abrasion

• Car Wash

• Chemical Resistance

• Clean-ability

• Coating Thickness

• Color Evaluation

• Crocking

• Cure Test

• Five Finger Scratch

• Flexibility

• Gardner Impact

• Gravel-o-meter

• High Pressure Cleaning

• Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure

• Nissan Scratch

• Odor Testing

• Oil/Gas Immersion

• Paint Adhesion

• Thermal-shock

• Paint Film Permeability

• Pencil Hardness

• Perspiration

• Scuff and Mar

• Solvent and Detergent Resistance

• Specular Gloss

• Spot Test Acid, Water And Soap

• Stone Hammer

• Surface Roughness

• Taber Abrasion

• Thumbnail Hardness

• Water Immersion

• Water Jet

Durability And Fatigue

• Combined Durability & Environmental

• Component Evaluation

• Experimental Stress Analysis

• Flammability, FMVSS302

• Flow Measurement

• Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)

• Life Cycle Endurance

• Load Vs Deflection

• Mechanical Durability

• Pressure Cycling / Environmental Fatigue

• Servo Hydraulic Fatigue

• Structural Testing

• Vehicle Seat Cycle Testing

Military and Aerospace Testing

• Altitude

• Explosive Atmosphere

• Fluids Susceptibility

• Icing/Freezing Rain

• Leak Testing

• Linear/Constant Acceleration

• PIND

• Rapid Decompression

• Sand and Dust

• Solar Radiation

• Waterproofness/Rain Exposure

• Vibration and Shock

• Wind driven rain

Dynamics Testing

• Combined Vibration and Environmental

• Classic Shock (Half-Sine, Sawtooth)

• HALT/HASS

• Linear Acceleration (Centrifuge)

• Random

• Random-on-Random

• Sine Dwell

• Sine-on-Random

• Sine Sweep

• Sound Testing

• SRS Shock

Mechanical Testing

• Adhesion of Painted and Metallic Coating

• Breaking Strength of Plastics and Metals

• Brittleness

• Coating Weight

• Compressive Strength of Foam, Plastics and Metals

• Density and Specific Gravity

• Flexural Bending (3 Point) Modulus

• Hardness, Rockwell, Knoop/Vickers

• Heat Treat Verification

• Impact Testing

• IZOD

• Load Testing of Components/Assemblies

• Peel Testing

• Shear Strength

• Tensile Properties

• Torque

• Weld Quality/Strength

• Welding and Brazing Analysis

Chemical & Failure Analysis Testing

• Contamination Analysis

• Failure Analysis

• Fourier Transform Infrared

• GC/MS With Gerstel TDS

• GC/MS With Headspace

• HPLC

• Microscopic Evaluation

• Off-Gas Analysis

• VOC Testing

• Volumetric Analysis

• SEM/EDS

• Energy Dispersive Spectrometer

• Fractography

• High Magnification Imaging

• Identification of Contaminants

• Measurement and Distribution

• Semi Quantitative Chemical Analysis

• Verification of Coating Types

• Thermal Analysis

• Compositional Analysis

• Crystallinity

• Cure

• DSC – Differential Scanning Calorimetry

• Melt Flow Indexer

• Melt Point

• Oxidative Induction Time

• Temp

• TGA

• Thermal Stability