By type of test

Mechanical tests

  • Specimens preparation by injection and compression molding

  • Specimens preparation from component (where possibile)

  • Specimens conditioning for mechanical tests:
    - drying in vacuum-sealed oven (max 17 hours)
    - mainteinance in a water bath at constant temperature, until equilibrium humidification

  • Tension/compression/flexure test at room temperature or other temperature: recording of the force-displacement curve and construction of nominal stress-strain curve

  • Tensile test with extensometer at room temperature or other temperature for elastic modulus measurement

  • Creep test at room temperature or isothermal creep at room temperature or other temperature (in tension/compression/bending), maximum test time 17 hours: recording of the displacement-time curve

  • Use of photocamera and its data acquisition software for the evaluation of displacements/deformations during mechanical tests

  • Not instrumented Charpy impact test (specimen notching included)

  • Not instrumented Izod impact test (specimen notching included)

  • Instrumented Charpy impact test (specimen notching included)

  • Fracture mechanics tests (KIc) at slow speed according to ISO 13586

  • Fracture mechanics tests (KIc) in impact conditions according to ISO 17281

  • Fracture mechanics tests (JIc) according to ESIS protocol (2001)

  • Dynamic-mechanical tests (temperature and frequency sweep; isothermal strain sweep)

  • Compression cyclic tests on elastomers

  • Fatigue tests with servohydraulic dynamometer

Rheological tests

  • Capillary rheometer tests on polymeric materials for the evaluation of the viscosity-shear rate flow curve

  • Melt stretching tests for the measurement of melt strength of polymeric materials, with recording of load-stretching ratio curve

  • Melt index tests (Melt Mass Flow Rate, Melt Volume Flow Rate) according to ISO 1133 on polymeric materials

Physico-chemical analyses

  • UV-VIS transmittance spectrophotometry

  • FT-IR spectrometry

  • Thermogravimetric analysis TGA

  • Combined TGA-FTIR analysis

  • SEC/GPC chromatography

  • TLC chromatography

  • DSC calorimetry

  • Potentiometric titration

  • Colorimetric titration

  • Measurement of ashes and mineral filler content by calcination

  • Solution capillary viscosimetry

  • Densitometry on solids

  • Solubility tests

  • Fractionation by ultrafiltration

The listed tests can be commissioned on behalf of a third party, contact us for more information.