Mechanical Testing Services
Comprehensive mechanical, creep, fatigue, metallographic, and corrosion testing from some of the best equipped laboratories in the world.
Comprehensive Material Property Determination
IncoTest laboratories are equipped for a comprehensive determination of the mechanical properties of engineering materials. Tests are performed to national, international, and clients' specifications across a full range of product forms — bar, sheet, wire, tube, and fasteners.
Digital instrumentation is used throughout for instrument control and data capture, suitable for material property validation, quality control, and R&D purposes.
Tensile Testing
Mechanical properties are evaluated using computer-controlled tensile testing frames running the latest software. Capability extends across a wide range of product forms — from very fine wire and strip to precision machined test pieces extracted from forgings. Tests can be performed on fastener components through to full section bar and tube.
Tensile testing in accordance with various common industry standards at ambient temperature.
Tensile testing in accordance with various common industry standards, including ASTM E21, BS EN ISO 6892-2, BS EN 2002-2.
From very fine wire and strip through to full section bar and tube. Fastener components and precision machined test pieces extracted from forgings are also accommodated.
Charpy Impact
A standardised high-strain rate test which determines the amount of energy absorbed by a material during fracture. This absorbed energy is a measure of a material's toughness and is used to study temperature-dependent ductile-brittle transition.
−196°C to Ambient
Tests can be conducted at temperatures ranging from −196°C to ambient.
V-Notch & U-Notch
Standard notch configurations V-Notch & U-Notch.
Hardness
Hardness is a characteristic defined as the resistance of the material to deformation, penetration, scratching, or other physical force. IncoTest offers a range of methods.
Standard and low force Vickers hardness, including microhardness.
10/3000 standard and 2.5/187.5 low load Brinell methods.
Rockwell (B & C)
Vickers (standard, low force, microhardness) · Brinell 10/3000 and 2.5/187.5 · Rockwell B & C. Suitable across bar, forgings, sheet, and component sections.
Stress Rupture & Creep
IncoTest has one of the largest and best equipped stress rupture and creep laboratories in Europe — operating in a dedicated, air-conditioned environment controlled at 21±2°C.
Operating at up to 1200°C in a controlled laboratory environment. One of the largest facilities in Europe.
Stress rupture is defined as the sudden and complete failure of a material under stress. During testing, the sample is held at a specific load level and temperature for a pre-determined amount of time. IncoTest machines range from direct load to lever types with a load range up to 5 tonnes.
Creep is defined as the time-dependent deformation of a material under an applied load below its yield strength. Creep strain tests use high-temperature extensometry and high-precision transducers — automatically logged and processed by a supervisory computer.
Flexible Test Piece Formats
In-House Specimen Manufacture
Low stress plunge grinding for hard alloys. Threading to unified, metric, BS, or client specifications. Specialists in miniature test specimen manufacture.
Fatigue
Fatigue testing characterises material or component behaviour during cyclic loading, determining how cyclic forces will affect a product or material over time using varying loads, speeds, and temperatures to create predictive patterns for material behaviour.
Carried out on servo hydraulic machines under load or stroke control conditions. Temperatures ambient to 1200°C. Forces up to ± 100kN.
Metallography & Corrosion
IncoTest laboratories are equipped for the preparation and evaluation of a wide range of alloys and materials. Microstructural, corrosion, and physical testing capabilities are detailed below.
Measurement of the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion and other physical material properties.
Structure & Phase Analysis
Corrosion Resistance Evaluation
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IncoTest provides high quality, cost effective materials testing services from some of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Operating 24 hours a day, orders are processed as quickly as possible to meet customers' delivery requirements.