Verify grade, composition, microstructure and heat treatment.
Chemical and metallographic analysis to verify material grade conformance, identify counterfeit material, evaluate heat treatment and investigate failures.
Material substitution is one of the most common — and most damaging — quality failures from Chinese suppliers. Our material testing service verifies that the steel, aluminum, copper, plastic or composite actually used in your part matches the grade specified on your drawing, with chemistry, microstructure, hardness and mechanical properties as evidence.
We deliver Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) for ferrous and non-ferrous metals, XRF for rapid screening, metallographic preparation and microscopy for grain structure and heat-treatment evaluation, hardness testing (Rockwell, Vickers, Brinell, micro-hardness) and full tensile / impact / bend testing on standardized specimens.
For failure investigations, material testing is combined with fractography, SEM/EDS and process review to identify root cause — fatigue, brittle fracture, hydrogen embrittlement, intergranular corrosion, decarburization or non-conforming heat treatment — and to support warranty and supplier-claim discussions with defensible data.
Customer names redacted under NDA. Project descriptions reflect the engineering work actually performed.
ASTM, EN, ISO, JIS and Chinese GB are routine. We can also test to customer-specific specifications when supplied with the standard document.
Yes — we issue independent third-party EN 10204 3.1 certificates and can coordinate 3.2 with witnessing surveyor when required.
OES requires a roughly 10 × 10 mm flat surface. For tensile testing we need enough material to extract a standard specimen — we'll advise during scoping.
Non-destructive 3D X-ray inspection of internal structure, defects and dimensions.
Tensile, compression, torque, leak, vibration and fatigue testing.
Detect surface and internal defects with AOI, AI vision and X-ray.
Tell us about your part — we respond within one business day with scope, methodology and quotation. NDA available before disclosure.