Testing Laboratory Services


Capabilties

CONTECH’s metallurgical engineering and testing laboratory provides analysis of CONTECH-designed or customer-designed products.  Mechanical property results are obtained through a variety of testing capabilities including component strength and fatigue testing.  Product quality analysis is completed using a full range of metallographic equipment.

Contech offers a wide variety of metallurgical testing services that can be used for research and development, product validation, and failure analysis. Contech is committed to providing high quality metallurgical services that can be tailored to meet customer needs and expectations.

Services Offered

Metallurgical Testing

  • photography
  • sample cutting, mounting & polishing                  
  • metallography 
  • image analysis
  • failure analysis
  • thickness measurements
  • chemical analysis 
  • scanning electron microscope (SEM)
  • energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS)
  • solidification analysis

Mechanical Testing

  • component fatigue testing
  • component strength testing
  • tensile testing
  • fatigue testing (stain-life & stress-life)
  • impact testing
  • hardness testing

Design and Development Services

  • custom fixture design
  • reverse engineering
  • casting simulation
  • finite element analysis (FEA)
  • alloy and heat treatment development

Lab Testing

Lab Testing

 

Lab Testing