Mechanical testing, also known as destructive testing, reveals the properties of a material under dynamic or static force. Designed to ensure that materials are suitable for their intended applications, mechanical testing includes methods such as tensile strength, compression strength, impact resistance, fracture toughness and fatigue.
Element offers a full suite of testing services for metallic and nonmetallic materials, as well as components and specialty products. Whether testing to a standard method or developing a custom program, our experts can provide you with accurate, reliable results for projects large and small.
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With expertise across some of the world’s most vital industries, we can assist with even the most challenging projects, no matter what the material. For more information about our destructive testing services, contact an expert today.
Our Mechanical Testing Services
We provide a variety of destructive testing methods around the world.
Fatigue Testing
Element's laboratories help customers characterize the properties and behaviors of materials and components using varying loads, speeds, and environmental conditions to create predictive patterns of future behavior.
Tensile Testing
Element delivers industry-leading tensile testing services for a wide range of metallic, polymeric, and other advanced materials to the Aerospace and other industry sectors.
Fracture Toughness Testing
Element provides fracture toughness testing to determine material characteristics and longevity of metallic, nonmetallic, and advanced materials.
Impact Testing
Element's experts subject materials and products to dynamic impact, measuring cushioning, g-forces, and impact failure mechanisms.
Stress Rupture Testing
Element offers stress rupture testing to understand the sudden and complete failure of a material under stress. Loads may be applied by tensile bending, flexural, biaxial or hydrostatic methods.
Shear Testing
Element performs a variety of shear testing methods and techniques, and we are committed to providing you with the most accurate results possible.
Hardness Testing
Element's laboratories use a variety of micro-indentation and macro-indentation testing methods to determine the hardness of a material to deformation.
Fastener
Element’s fastener, screw, and bolt test methods are designed to evaluate every aspect of your fastener’s performance, from tensile strength to rotational capacity.
Residual Stress Measurement
Element's laboratories offer different techniques for residual stress measurement, including XRD, strain gaging, and Barkhausen Noise Analysis.
More Services
Mechanical Testing at Cryogenic Temperatures
Element’s cryogenic testing services ensure the reliability and optimum performance of your materials in low-temperature conditions.
Failure Analysis
Find out how Element's global team of failure analysis experts learn from the past, to help prevent future failures in service.
What is Mechanical Testing?
Learn more about what mechanical testing is and how it plays a key role in ensuring a cost-effective design as well as technological evolution and superiority.
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