Quality Assurance & Materials Testing Lab

Nondestructive Examination

• Liquid penetrant
• Magnetic particle
• Ultrasonic – Thickness, Shear Wave and Phased Array
• Radiographic
• Hydrostatic testing
• Hardness – Vickers, Rockwell, Brinell
• PMI – Positive Material Identification Equipment

Our specialized mechanical testing lab for determination of material properties is equipped to do the following:

Destructive Examination

• Tensile Testing – Tinius Olsen 400,000 lb tensile and compression
• Compression testing
• Up to 400,000-lb. capacity
• Hardness testing
• Vickers microhardness
• Rockwell hardness testing machine
• Brinell hardness testing, microhardness
• Charpy Impact Testing – 264 ft. lb. and 400 ft. lb.
• Elevated temperature and sub-zero
• Impact energy, shear, and lateral expansion
• Determination of impact energy, shear area, and lateral expansion
• Welding procedures and 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
• Laser tracker, coordinate-measuring machine