Tests can be carried out over a wide temperature range to characterise the properties of materials. Data is generated for Quality Control (QC) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) design studies.
Mechanical testing can include tensile, compression, shear, flexure, fatigue, creep, stress relaxation and optical extensometry testing. For such testing Roxel have tensile test machines equipped with temperature conditioning chambers and a line-scan camera capability. This can be used to test explosive and non-explosive material. Other testing includes metallurgical analysis such as hardness and failure / corrosion analysis, fracture analysis and microscopy, bond testing, thermal analysis and Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA).
