Material Testing & Labs

Materials Testing is a range of highly precise and reliable techniques that determine and measure the characteristics of materials, such as mechanical properties, elemental composition, corrosion resistance and the effects of heat treatments.

At Zeeruk, our material testing services are destructive testing methods that are categorized as mechanical, fracture toughness, fatigue, shear, thermal, flexure, tensile, impact, flamability chemical, corrosion and metallurgical testing. Most material testing is performed on metals, although some services are available for composites, ceramics and polymers.

We are capable of developing a custom testing program for pre-compliance with international standards or general quality assurance. Some of the materials testing services offered by ZEERUK include:

Composition

Oftentimes, businesses need to know with certainty what materials are in the composite materials they intend to use — such as thermoplastics, resins and sandwich core materials.

Shear

Materials testing designed to measure shear strength typically quantifies how much stress a specimen can take before rupturing and is often used to test the strength of adhesives.

Thermal

For any product that will undergo temperature changes — think of a satellite’s solar panel — thermal testing forms a vital part of verifying the material’s ability to function in its eventual environment of use.

Flexure

Tensile & Compression

From plastics, concrete and metals to adhesives and rubbers, tensile/compression testing is a form of materials testing that places specimens under precise compressive loads to measure their ability to withstand compression before deformation occurs.

Corrosion

To verify that a given material will be able to reach a certain length of service before failure occurs, a corrosion test is often performed, especially for industries manufacturing infrastructure components expected to withstand certain environmental conditions for extended periods of time without degrading.

Impact

Especially for determining the ability of certain metals to absorb the resulting energy from a measured impact, this form of materials testing is used widely to test the toughness of a sample under challenging and often highly destructive conditions.

Thermomechanical analysis

By applying a consistent force to materials such as polymers, glass, laminates and ceramics while they undergo varying temperature changes, thermomechanical analysis — or TMA — can determine the linear expansion and/or phase changes a specimen undergoes as a result of this materials test method.

Our material testing lab is fully accredited and equipped to test and analyze materials for a wide-range of industries to their standards and specified criteria. Our test data and results help determine whether materials, fasteners and treatments meet the requirements of regulatory agencies, design engineers or business quality programs and are suitable for their intended applications.