Element’s end-to-end testing ensures products made with additive manufacturing are lighter, more durable, and meet all your safety and performance requirements. From R&D to powder and materials qualification, to component testing, and product failure analysis, we support you throughout the entire additive manufacturing product lifecycle
Benefits of Additive Manufacturing Testing at Element
- Enhance product performance – assess AM parts under real-world conditions including exposure to chemicals, temperature changes, and mechanical stresses, to produce lightweight, durable, high-performance structures
- Optimize the manufacturing process – save time and money by optimizing your product design for ease of manufacturing.
- Accelerate time-to-market – Reduce time spent in product development with support from a dedicated and knowledgeable testing partner.
- Verify material properties - ensure the chemical properties, mechanical properties, microstructure, and performance characteristics of your AM materials suit your needs.
- Improve customer confidence - build trust in the quality and reliability of your AM-produced parts by delivering rigorously tested products to market.
How Can Element Help You?
Discover how Element supports your additive manufacturing testing needs:
- Expertise Across Multiple Industries: Benefit from our deep industry knowledge across aerospace, medical devices, transportation, energy, and more.
- Quality Assurance: Our experts ensure quality, tractability, and consistency to provide the clearest and most actionable testing data,
- Advanced Capabilities: Access state-of-the-art equipment and methodologies for precise and reliable testing, for even the most complex projects.
- Hands-On Engineering Support: Optimize product design and material selection early in the product lifecycle with input from our testing experts.
- End-to-End Testing and Advisory Services: From material selection to failure analysis, Element’s experts provide all the services and support you need from a single partner
- Flexible and Customised Solutions: Rely on Element for custom test setups, tailored testing plans, specialized capabilities, and individual consultancy services.
- Expert Consultation: Access comprehensive process knowledge and end-market expertise for successful material selection, product development, and troubleshooting.
- Regulatory Guidance: Navigate stringent international testing standards for highly regulated industries in additive manufacturing.
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Why Choose Element for Your Additive Manufacturing Testing
Extensive expertise with seasoned professionals who understand the intricacies of advanced manufacturing technologies.
A world leader in the provision of high-volume routine mechanical testing services for both metals and polymeric materials.
ISO/IEC 17025- accredited laboratories ensure compliance and enhance product performance, safety and reliability.
Advanced additive manufacturing methods paired with digital engineering services for unparalleled precision, efficiency, and innovation.
Extensive network of laboratories across the US, UK, and Europe for comprehensive services to meet your local needs.
Responsive, communicative, and proactive customer service, always there to address your concerns.
Expert Advice
Over 6000 highly educated and experienced staff:
- Material Scientists
- Polymer Experts
- International Welding Engineers
- Coating and Corrosion Specialists
- Fracture Mechanics Specialists
- Chemists
- Mechanical Engineers
- NDT Experts
Our Comprehensive Advanced Manufacturing Services
- Powder Qualification
- ISO/ASTM 52907:2019 Characterization of metal powder
- Chemical Composition
- Physical Powder Properties
- Material Qualification
- Tensile & compression
- Fatigue and Fracture Toughness
- Impact, Hardness, creep and stress rupture
- Failure Analysis
- Optical microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy SEM)
- Component Testing
- Commutative Tomography (CT Scan)
- Non Destructive Testing
- Medical Devices
- Testing for AM Polymers
- Materials Engineering
- Advice and guidance
- Failure Analysis
Leading Additive Manufacturing Expertise
At Element, we are at the forefront of testing for the additive manufacturing industry.
Our experts work closely with industry leaders such as the ASTM International Committee F42 on Additive Manufacturing Testing Technology and America Makes. This ensures we stay ahead of the latest advancements in testing technologies and methodologies.
By partnering with us, you benefit from our commitment to minimizing risks and propelling your product development activities forward with confidence.
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