Laboratory Testing

Capabilities

BendTec provides laboratory testing and qualification services to verify material performance, support code compliance, and validate welding procedures and personnel qualifications.

  • Tensile Testing – Tinius Olsen 400,000 pound tensile and compression
  • Compression testing
  • Hardness testing
  • Vickers microhardness
  • Rockwell hardness testing machine
  • Brinell hardness testing, microhardness
  • Charpy Impact Testing – 264 foot-pound and 400 foot-pound.
  • Impact energy, shear, and lateral expansion
  • Determination of impact energy, shear area, and lateral expansion
  • Welding procedure specification (WPS) and Procedure Qualification Record (PQR)
  • Welding Qualification Testing (WQT) and Welder Performance Qualification (WPQ)
  • Root, face, side bend and tensile coupons per ASME IX, API 1104, AWS D1.1
  • Macro etching of welds
  • Determining the depth of penetration and heat-affected zones