Creep and Stress Rupture

MECHANICAL TESTING METHODS

  • Abrasion (Taber)
  • Adhesion (Peel) Testing
  • Bend Testing
  • Bond Strength Testing 
  • Charpy Impact Testing  (-320°F  to 450°F) 
  • Climbing Drum Adhesion of Sandwich Composites
  • Coating Adhesion
  • Coating Shear Fatigue
  • Coefficient of Thermal Expansion by TMA
  • Composite Testing (Fiber Reinforced)
  • Compression Set
  • Compressive Properties
  • Core Shear Properties of Sandwich Construction by Beam Flexure
  • Creep and Stress Rupture Testing
  • DMA (Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer)
  • Ductility
  • Elastic Modulus
  • Fatigue Testing
  • Filled Hole Tension & Compression
  • Flattening
  • Flat-wise Tensile Testing
  • Flexural Properties
  • Floating Roller Peel Strength
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Gel Time
  • Hardness (Rockwell, Brinell, Durometer, Shore, Barcol, Knoop, Vickers, Macro Vickers)
  • Heat Aging
  • Heat Deflection by TMA
  • Heat Treatment (furnace to 2100°F)
  • Hydrogen Embrittlement
  • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Indentation Toughness
  • Interlaminar Shear
  • Jominy Hardenability
  • Lap Shear Testing
  • Machining & Specimen Preparation
  • Materialography
  • Modulus of Rupture (MOR)
  • n-Value (Strain Hardening Exponent)
  • Open Hole Tension and Compression
  • Pipeline Integrity Testing
  • r-Value (Plastic Strain Ratio)
  • Residual Strength of Composites After Impact
  • Rotating Beam Fatigue 
  • Shear Testing of Rivets to ASTM B565, Single/Double
  • Short Beam Strength
  • Shot Peen Qualification
  • Single-Edged Notched beams (SENB)
  • Slow Strain Rate (G129)
  • Specimen Conditioning
  • Strain Gaging
  • Surface Roughness (ANSI/ASME B46.1)
  • T Peel Strength
  • Tear Resistance of Films & Sheeting
  • Tear - Rubbers & Elastomers
  • Tensile Testing
  • Torsional and Axial Fatigue (200 lb)
  • Tube Testing (Tensile, Flare, Hydrostatic)
  • Welder & Procedure Qualification
  • Wire/Spring Testing (Wrap, Coil, Bend)
  • Young's, Tangent and Chord Modulus (Room Temperature)