Mechanical Testing Services

A crucial step in the product development process is evaluating a product physically and mechanically. Vibration, shock stresses, and strain are examples of applied physical forces that might show a material's inelastic behavior. Product developers can better comprehend their creations through mechanical testing, find flaws, and build more reliable quality control.

Services for mechanical testing

A variety of strength tests are used in mechanical testing to assess a material or component’s compatibility for the intended use. It gauges properties like elongation, hardness, fracture toughness, impact resistance, stress fracture, and fatigue limit.

Infinita Lab is capable of conducting mechanical testing independently or in conjunction with environmental stimuli, such as:

• Adhesion \sBond Strength Compressive Strength Break Scanning Using Strength Differential Calorimetry (DSC) (DSC)
• Ductility \sDurability
• Mechanical Dynamic Analysis (DMA)
• Elongation
• Flexibility Endurance
• Bending or Flexing
• Flexural exhaustion
• Folding Flexural Strength Flexibility
• Fracture Toughness
• The transition from glass TMA temperature
• Impact Characterization of the Strength Lap Shear Material
• Simulation of Peel Strength Rework
• Strength in Shear, Tensile, Tension, and Compression
• Terminal Power
• Analysis via Thermogravimetric (TGA)
• Heat-Machine Analysis (TMA)
• Young’s Modulus Young’s Impact

Organizations must be aware of the circumstances that will cause structural failure in components and reduce their functionality. 

Depending on the material’s elastic properties, excessive deformation might be either elastic or inelastic. Under loading conditions of stable equilibrium, such as the extreme deflection of a steel beam, excessive elastic deformation may take place. The buckling of a column or brittle fracture is another example of this type of failure that may occur under the loading situation of unstable equilibrium. The plastic qualities of the material, including ultimate tensile strength, strain hardening, and hardness, determine excessive inelastic deformation. Under load circumstances that result in fatigue, ductile fracture, and creep, this failure may happen. Alternating loads or strains can trigger crack initiation and generate a failure type known as a fracture. Defects in the material or stress-raising factors might accelerate the crack’s propagation.

Wear: At the contact interfaces of load-bearing components, mechanical wear can be seen. Mechanical testing can be used to characterize material qualities or certify the safety and integrity of finished products. Regarding a material or component’s appropriateness for its intended application, mechanical testing offers useful information. Additionally, mechanical testing can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your design process. Mechanical testing also helps the quality, security, and creativity of products.

Capabilities of the Infinita Lab 

You can push the limits of performance in your goods and components with the aid of mechanical testing. You can have the assurance you need regarding future performance and safety thanks to Infinita Lab’ mechanical testing competence. Our reputation is built on our technical prowess, customer service, honesty, and the caliber of our output. There is no room for error in businesses including aircraft, defense, medical devices, and others. Infinita Lab engineers collaborate directly with our clients to comprehend their operational and business requirements, enabling us to consistently achieve the outcomes and levels of client satisfaction they demand.

We can provide testing services in a variety of fields, including:

• Testing of materials — It is crucial to characterize and assess the quality and performance of the material or product to ascertain the suitability for the intended application, and life expectancy, or to address failure or contamination issues. Metals, alloys, polymers, plastics, glass, and other materials all have unique properties. With knowledge and expertise in material analysis that spans a range of industries, including automotive, defense, telecommunications, and consumer services, Infinita Lab offers a countrywide network of professional material testing labs. A variety of testing services can be carried out by our material analysis specialists, including.

• Shear thermal flexure, gas exposure and tensile/compression/fatigue/ impact/flammability Additionally, we can work with you to create a unique testing schedule for general quality assurance, pre-compliance with ISO standards, or other standards,

• Polymer testing — Developments in material science have led to a wide range of materials that can be used in place of metal in products and parts for a variety of industries. Plastics, rubber, and other polymer materials can all be tested for quality and analyzed by Infinita Lab. To determine functionality and forecast performance over time, we can validate performance attributes. We identify basic materials and additives, confirm material hardness and tensile strength, and evaluate product attributes using various methods of polymer testing and analysis. Dimensional metrology is used when it’s important to confirm the dimensions of surfaces, internal threads, and exterior threads, as well as to make sure certain features—like machined goods, components, and fasteners—meet the required criteria. Infinita Lab is capable of performing typical hand tool inspections, third-party Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM), and first article inspections.

• Calibration — To guarantee accurate readings, we may provide NIST-traceable and A2LA-accredited calibration services in a laboratory with a controlled atmosphere. The majority of gauges, measuring instruments, electrical, temperature, torque, force, mass, humidity, masters, and pressure devices may all be calibrated by us.

• Failure investigation – When a product or component malfunctions while being used as intended, it’s critical to identify the underlying cause of the issue. Infinita Lab is capable of doing the required analysis and inspection. We will give you a thorough root cause analysis report that will include all conclusions from our study and give you the information you need to stop a recurrence.

There are various sorts of mechanical testing that materials and products may go through to ensure they work as intended:

Testing for fatigue — Depending on the source, between 50 and 90 percent of all mechanical failures are caused by fatigue. The word “fatigue testing” refers to a testing procedure used on components and goods to identify the localized and progressive structural damage that results from cyclical loading on a material. This test can be carried out at several stages of the manufacturing process, including during raw material testing.

The goal is to create a fatigue strength curve that shows how the material holds up under cyclic loading at various stress levels. Axial, torsional, high-cycle, low-cycle, bending, rotating, shear, proof load and multiple degrees of freedom are among the fatigue testing methods we can use.

Tensile testing: This kind of mechanical testing gauges the amount of pressure needed to stretch a rope, wire, or beam until it snaps. Tensile strength is a crucial topic in mechanical engineering, structural engineering, and material science. It is the highest amount of tensile stress that an object can bear before failing. A sample is subjected to uniaxial tension during tensile testing until it breaks.

Axial tensile testing, weld tensile testing, wedge tensile testing, castings tensile testing, enhanced temperature tensile testing, and tensile testing for machined specimens are among Infinita Lab’s tensile testing capabilities. Many businesses use failure theories, tensile test results, and other data to forecast component failure under more widespread stress situations.

Testing for hardness is a method that is frequently used to check the conformity of heat-treated surfaces and to determine how resistant a solid is to various types of shape change or penetration when a force is applied to the material surface.

Microindentation hardness testing, often known as microhardness testing, is one of the most popular techniques. The technique involves impressing a precise diamond indenter into the material under a variety of stresses. The testing expert measures the impression length and computes the hardness value using the data and test load. Rockwell standard testing, Rockwell superficial testing, and Brinell hardness testing are other hardness testing techniques.

Compression testing is a method for analyzing how materials respond to compressive loads to identify a material’s elastic limit, proportional limit, yield point, yield strength, and compressive strength (if applicable). The specimen is loaded between two plates by the test engineer, who then applies force to the specimen by moving the crossheads together.

Fracture mechanics: The eventual cracking of machine parts is inevitable. Fracture mechanics aid in assessing the seriousness of a fault and identifying when it becomes an issue. Many sectors demand that manufacturers collect empirical data on a material’s capacity to withstand cracking and crack expansion. Companies frequently use fracture testing to anticipate the service life of items and create maintenance schedules.

Infinita Lab provides a wide selection of mechanical testing. With a global network, Infinita Lab can handle specialized testing requirements or handle conventional testing requests.

Which Sectors Gain from Mechanical Testing?

Infinita Lab offers specialist services for a variety of other industries, including those for medical devices, consumer electronics, and industrial automation and controls, in addition to the primary areas we already cover. Please get in touch with us directly if you can’t locate the unique services you’re looking for on our website. Here are a few examples of additional industries that Infinita Lab offers through its testing, certification, and supply chain management specializations:

Aerospace & Defense — Working with a wide range of metals, composites, and other materials is a must for engineers in the aerospace and defence sector. Tensile testing, fracture mechanics, fastener testing, composite testing, and fatigue testing are just a few of the industrial, commercial, and military applications for which Infinita Lab collaborates with defence and governmental agencies to provide testing and certification for Tier I and Tier II suppliers. To satisfy customer requirements and aid them in achieving performance objectives, we also offer specialized test techniques.

Automobile Industry – The pressure on automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles is continual, which forces design engineers to look for lighter materials all the time. To make sure you can adhere to stringent SAE and ASTM requirements, Infinita Lab offers rapid and accurate material testing, including composites testing, fatigue testing, fastener testing, tensile testing, and fracture mechanic testing among other techniques.

Medical Devices – Infinita Lab can make sure you adhere to the strictest test requirements set forth by the FDA, ASTM, CE, and ISO. We can help medical device manufacturers expedite submissions to the FDA and other governmental agencies by providing test design, execution, and documentation through our thorough certifiable quality program. This includes testing for regulatory agency submittals as well as prototype/feasibility trials and test protocol development.

The following sectors may also gain from Infinita Lab mechanical testing and certification services:

energy generation & power from composite materials

Market for clean energy and environmentally friendly goods Consumer electronics industry Voting systems.

Tensile, Compression, and Flexural Testing

Tensile, Compression, and Flexural Testing IPC-TM-650 ,ASTM D 638, ASTM D 882, ASTM D 695, ASTM D 790, ISO 527, and ISO 178

Our cutting-edge universal testing equipment is perfect for figuring out how materials will behave in tension or compression tests up to 5 kN. Additionally, it can conduct tests for adhesion, peel, and three- and four-point bends. The system has a single column with a crosshead travel range of 735 mm and is appropriate for complex testing applications for testing high elongation materials.

Elastic limit, percent elongation, Young’s modulus of elasticity, tensile strength, compressive strength, yield point, yield strength, breakpoint, break strength, flexural strength, and other tensile/compression/flexure parameters are all determined using test data.

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