Our materials analysis services evaluate material quality and provide the necessary insight to improve performance, resolve failure or contamination issues
Our materials analysis services evaluate material quality and provide the insights needed to improve performance and resolve failure or contamination issues. Our scientists and engineers design and conduct studies to drive greater understanding of your material’s composition, structure, chemical properties, mechanical properties or physical properties. Information from our reverse engineering and deformulation studies can give you valuable insight into the construction and properties of products and materials.
We analyse a wide range of materials, including polymers, plastics, composites, metals, alloys, ceramics, paper, and board. These materials have diverse properties that can impact performance. Understanding your material’s properties is essential to determine if it's suitable for its intended use or to understand and rectify a failure. To explore a product’s useful lifetime, our performance testing and environmental and durability testing can provide accurate predictive information.
Our materials analysis and testing knowledge spans various industry sectors, including aerospace, automotive, nuclear, chemicals, oil and gas, polymers and plastics, packaging, adhesives, medical devices, textiles and apparel, building materials, electronics, composites, consumer products, and nanomaterials. With a global network of laboratories and over 1,000 industry experts, we can support customers worldwide with prompt testing and consulting.
Materials Analysis Core Services
Material Quality Assurance: Our materials analysis expertise ensures the quality of your materials, supporting product development and guaranteeing performance.
Failure Investigation: We investigate and help rectify failure issues by delving into the composition, structure, chemical, mechanical, or physical properties of your materials.
Reverse Engineering and Deformulation Studies: Gain valuable insights into the construction and properties of products and materials through our in-depth studies.
Performance and Environmental Testing: Assess a product's useful lifetime with accurate predictive information derived from performance and environmental durability testing.
Materials Analysis Techniques
Our experts use a wide range of materials analysis techniques to provide Total Quality Assurance to your business. Our laboratories work to ISO 17025 accreditation to test to a variety of standards, including ASTM, SAE, UL, IEC, ISO, BIFMA, EN, MIL and OEM-specific. We also provide advanced and routine materials and mechanical testing characterisation, data interpretation and expertise. Materials analysis techniques include microscopy, surface analysis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, NMR analysis, thermal analysis, rheological analysis and spectroscopy techniques including FTIR analysis or Raman analysis.
Materials Analysis Investigative Services
Intertek’s failure analysis services determine the cause of a failure and provides you with the insight you need to make decisions and rectify the problem. Through our forensic analytical and scientific services, a detailed investigation into product and processes are conducted to resolve legal, safety or performance issues. Our contamination detection and analysis service allows for rapid identification and resolution of contamination.
By partnering with Intertek, you gain a support team backed by many years of industry knowledge. We help ensure the quality of your materials and products, optimize performance, and address or avoid failure issues. Leveraging our materials analysis capabilities empowers your organization to make informed decisions, enhance product quality, and drive innovation. Partner with us for a comprehensive understanding of your materials, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance and reliability
Materials Analysis and Testing:
FAQs
Materials testing is a popular and well known field of measurement to obtain physical and mechanical properties of materials from powders or raw materials, components and composite finished products.
What are the five types of material testing? ›
Materials testing breaks down into five major categories: mechanical testing; testing for thermal properties; testing for electrical properties; testing for resistance to corrosion, radiation, and biological deterioration; and nondestructive testing.
What is the purpose of material analysis? ›
Material testing is an integral part of quality assurance in manufacturing. It helps ensure that materials used in the production process meet specified standards and requirements. This is particularly vital in industries where safety and reliability are paramount, such as aerospace and healthcare.
What are the methods of material analysis? ›
Materials analysis techniques include microscopy, surface analysis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, NMR analysis, thermal analysis, rheological analysis and spectroscopy techniques including FTIR analysis or Raman analysis.
What is an example of material testing? ›
Dynamic materials testing refers to the (destructive) test on materials or components, which is performed with quick movement (dynamic). Examples include pendulum impact testers, drop weight testers, high-speed tests (puncture or high-speed tensile tests).
What industry is material testing? ›
Any company that produces tangible products engages in materials testing in some way. Though it occurs behind the scenes in research and quality laboratories, this testing is responsible for the reliability of products as wide ranging as automobile components, bridges, medical supplies, and simple packaging.
What are the two main categories of material testing? ›
With that said, there are two main categories of material testing: field testing and lab testing. All tests are guided by ASTM standards. The following information is a summary of common field and lab tests in construction. Please be sure to follow specific testing protocols for the material you need to test.
What is the American Standard for testing and materials? ›
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is a nonprofit organization in which producers, users, consumers, and representatives of government and academia develop voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems, and services. ASTM has 30,000 individual and organizational members worldwide.
What is material testing? ›
Materials testing is a respected and established technique that is used to ascertain both the physical and mechanical properties of raw materials and components.
What is raw material analysis? ›
Raw materials analysis provides data for gaining insight into existing manufacturing processes or helping to determine potential changes to further optimize your cost profile. The outputs are only as good as the inputs.
X-ray powder diffraction, therefore, enables detection, identification, and quantification of crystalline and amorphous APIs, excipients, and other any materials via fingerprinting. Raw materials can be quickly screened to control purity, crystallinity, and polymorphism as well as absolute phase abundance in mixtures.
Which method is best for metal analysis? ›
Common analytical methods used for trace metal analysis include atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The analysis of trace metals by ICP is a highly sensitive procedure.
What is the statistical analysis of materials? ›
The Statistical Analysis of Materials (SAM) is a Materials Laboratory computer program that statistically evaluates materials according to the requirements of WSDOT Standard Specifications.
What is the principle of material testing? ›
The key principle of materials testing is mechanical loading of a specimen or material up to a certain deformation or to break. The material properties which come as a result of this are shown through material characteristics.
What is an analysis test? ›
What is Test Analysis? Test analysis inspects and analyzes the test artifacts to create test conditions or cases. Test analysis aims to collect requirements and create test objectives to establish test conditions. As a result, it's also known as Test Basis.
