nCode Material Testing Laboratory: Service Details

nCode's Material Testing Laboratory specializes in:

• Fatigue life testing, stress-life and strain-life
• Consultative testing services, access our expertise
• Handles difficult-to-test materials, and more ...

Range of Services:

• Single and multi axis, static and dynamic specimen and component testing.
• Full specimen preparation from stock materials.
• Casting of specimens available from a wide range of production processes.
• Extraction of specimens from real components.
• Strain-life fatigue testing in tension/compression, fully-reversed bending and torsion.
• Load controlled fatigue testing for the derivation of stress-life or load-life parameters.
• Static and cyclic thermal loading from -40°C to 1050°C.
• Related thermal and mechanical loadings from -40°C to 1050°C.
• Tension/compression from 5kN to 150kN. Torsion up to 5,000Nm.
• Isothermal non ambient testing in the range -40 Degree C to + 1050 Degree C.
• Modulus testing of civil engineering elastomeric materials.

Typical Projects:

• Fatigue characterization of short fiber reinforced composite materials for automotive application.
• Strain life characterization of automotive body materials.
• Fatigue life testing of human implants and medical devices.
• Life testing of cast iron engine materials from components.