The Laboratory of Material Testing is accredited by ENAC as per ISO/IEC 17025:2005 for the performance of tests of metallic materials and welding joints.
It provides following services:
Destructive tests for the determination of mechanical properties of materials and welding joints
Tensile test at room and elevated temperature up to 550º C with a maximum load of 1.000 kN.
Notched bar impact testing (Charpy) in accordance with EN and ASTM standard from -190º C up to 50ªC.
Brinell, Rockwell and Vickers hardness tests with loads from 0,01 up to 30 kg.
Drop weight tests (Pellini) up to 1.600 julius and temperatires from -190ºC up to 50ºC.
Bending and flattening tests with loads up to 1.000 kN
Metallographics tests
Optical microscopy up to 1.800 magnifications and stereoscopic microscopy up to 50 magnifications with image acquisition.
Metalographic replicas on site
Corrosion tests
Quantitative metallographic with the Leica Application Suite (LAS) imaging software integrated in the MEF4M Leica microscope
Chemical tests
Chemical test of the following materials: steel, foundry and niquel alloys thru emission optical spectrometry with fix and portable equipment.
Carbon and sulfur determination with LECO and nitrógen with ELTRA.
Water analysis: conductivity, pH, ionic chromatography (anions and cations), dissolved oxygen, silicon in water, dissolved solids, suspended solids, total solids and metallic ions with colorimeter.
Dew point and oxygen determination in gas.
Moisture determination in fluxes and covers.
