Materials Testing
With over fifty years experience working at the leading edge of structural integrity research we are able to offer comprehensive mechanical, corrosion and thermal properties testing services to industry. Many of our techniques and services are unique in the UK.
We have over fifty professional engineers and scientists, based at our laboratories in Birchwood Park near Warrington and Culham Oxfordshire, many of whom are internationally recognised within their discipline. In addition, we are supported by a number of external consultants and University departments.
We have extensive sate of the art facilities that benefit from continuing capital investment. Our facilities include:
- Unique corrosion and corrosion cracking labs offering over 30 test stations with a capability to carry out tests in high temperature and high pressure environments
- A suite of 40 high temperature testing machines for creep and fatigue testing
- A fracture toughness testing lab
- A microstructural studies lab with SEM and optical microscopes
- A thermal properties measurements lab
- A component testing facility for structural features testing with loads up to 700 tonnes.
- An active facility for tests on irradiated materials