Quality Assurance
Testing and Analysis
Nondestructive Examination
- Liquid Penetrant
- Magnetic Particle
- Ultrasonic (shear wave and thickness)
- Radiographic
- Hydrostatic Testing
- Tele-Brinell
Specialist Mechanical Testing Lab
for Determination of Material Properties
The lab is equipped to do the following:
- Tensile Testing
400,000 lb Universal Tensile and Compression Testing Machine
- Compression Testing
Up to 400,000 lb capacity
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Hardness Testing
Vickers Micro Hardness,
Rockwell hardness testing machine
Brinell hardness testing Microhardness - Charpy Impact Testing
400 Ft.Lb. Charpy Impact Tester (elevated temperature and sub-zero)
264 Ft.Lb. Charpy Impact Tester (elevated temperature and sub-zero)
Determination of Impact Energy, Shear Area and Lateral Expansion
- Welding Procedures & Performance Testing
Root, Face, and Side Bends and Tensiles per ASME IX, API 1104, AWS D1.1
- Macro Etching of Welds
Determining Depth of Penetration and Heat Affected Zones
- Metalographic Bore Score with video output
- PMI (Positive Material Identification analyzer)
- Laser Tracker , Coordinate Measuring Machine
