05
Acuren operates five advanced materials testing laboratories. Experienced technical staff and state of the art equipment are available for all mechanical, chemistry, metallurgical and plastics testing. In addition, selected facilities are designated centers of expertise for conducting specialized testing such as NACE sour service testing on oilfield tubular goods, long-term fatigue tests, and accelerated aging testing on automotive plastic components, etc. In-house machine shops provide quick and accurate specimen preparation for all laboratory tests. Technical libraries contain an extensive collection of materials standards, both current and historical, for evaluating test results. Ready access to more than 50 materials engineers on Acuren's staff provide unparalleled depth of expertise when atypical materials or unusual test results are encountered.

Mechanical Testing
- Tensile testing
- Charpy impact
- Fracture toughness (CTOD)
- Hardness testing
- Weld procedure testing: as per ASME, ASTM, AWS, CSA, CWB
- Fatigue testing
- Valve certification: as per ANSI and API
- Sour environment testing (HIC, SCC, SSC)
- High temperature creep testing

Chemistry Testing
- Specification compliance: alloy content by ICP or spark spectroscopy
- Identification of unknown materials: PMI or spark spectroscopy

Corrosion Testing
- Corrosion susceptibility: as per ASTM and NACE standards
- Accelerated corrosion assessment

Metallurgical Testing
- Metallography by optical and stereo microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy: to 200,000X plus EDX analysis
- Scale analysis
- Photo documentation: film and digital

Plastics & Rubber Testing
- Tensile/compression testing
- Brittleness determination
- Mar resistance
- Peel adhesion
- Environmental chamber testing: to ASTM and manufacturer standards
- Mechanical properties
- Material characterization - FT-IR analysis
- Testing per SAE, ASTM, ISO, common automotive test methods
- Interior and exterior automotive trim and label testing

Vibration & Mechanical Shock
- Vibration and shock testing - to military, automotive, and rail standards
- Test fixture design and construction

Environmental Testing
- Environmental exposures to MIL, SAE, ASTM, ISO and automotive manufacturers' standards
- Thermal cycling, humidity, salt spray, UV exposure, IR heat lamp exposure, ozone exposure