Element Materials Technology

Element laboratories are staffed by professional failure analysts, chemists, and engineers trained in corrosion testing. Element provides businesses like yours with information to make good decisions about materials selection, treatment, and processes for virtually all industrial situations. (read more)

Element fracture mechanics labs are qualified to conduct the machining, fatigue pre-cracking, and fracture toughness determination, or FTD, of bend or compact-tension samples from every type of product, including large and complex structures-such as buildings, bridges, ships, aircraft, windmill towers, nuclear reactors, pressure vessels, and press bodies. (read more)

Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by A2LA

In 2009, Element built a new sour service laboratory in Houston, Texas, that enables our corrosion experts to perform materials qualification and testing in accordance with NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 requirements. Element' sour service testing laboratory is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditat... (read more)

Element's metallurgical engineers and technicians combine their chemical and metallurgic expertise with broad industrial knowledge to deliver rapid, accurate analyses, reports, and solutions to clients from every kind of industry and agency. (read more)

Element Materials Technology offers a comprehensive range of mechanical services that are designed to ensure products meet industry standards, perform as expected, and will last. We perform fatigue or stress rupture analysis on components or structures up to 100,000 pounds and stress durability tests on components or structures weighing as much as 200,000 pounds. (read more)

To test polymers in all their configurations requires specialized training and cutting edge instrumentation. Element operates several advanced polymer and plastic testing laboratories, staffed with scientific teams who have experience in polymer and elastomer characterization and processing, additives, impact modifiers, alloys, and blends. (read more)

Chemical analysis is a critical tool that provides essential data for every stage of a product's life-from material selection to R&D to failure analysis. Element chemical services include investigative chemistry, lead and contaminant testing, paints/coatings testing, polymer and advanced materials analysis, residue analysis, deformulation, and chemical processing. (read more)

Element operates a CPSC-approved, fully equipped, state-of-the-art, independent bedding and mattress testing laboratory, serving the needs of manufacturers, designers and merchandisers of home, commercial, medical and industrial furnishings. (read more)

Element experts test automotive and vehicle products to FMVSS, SAE, and other important standards and offer a full range of hose (brake, pneumatic, vacuum, suction, radiator coolant, and fuel) testing. (read more)

By identifying potential problems and flaws early, Element Materials Technology fastener testing experts can help you earn needed approvals, extend service life, reduce operating and replacement costs, and ensure greater operating safety. Element laboratories take great pride in offering you the services of our accredited testing facilities for your nail, staple, or fastener products. (read more)

Element offers both highly trained technical personnel and state-of-the-art facilities to the nuclear power industry. These facilities are constantly updated to keep abreast of the rapidly changing requirements of nuclear safety technology. (read more)

Element Jupiter of Florida utilizes its four air cannons to accommodate simulated and actual bird strikes at velocities up to 690 mph in testing programs for its customers. Element has supported defense and aerospace clients with bird strike and other product testing, environmental simulation and systems evaluation programs for over 30 years. (read more)

Stress-Strain Analysis of a material by Element experts helps you determine many of its physical properties. With the information gained through stress analysis and strain gaging, one can predict how a part will react when placed under various working loads. (read more)

Element St. Paul offers a full scope of services designed to establish the tested load values of concrete and masonry anchors-including chemical, mechanical, screw, and power-driven anchors. (read more)

UV light exposure can have a dramatic negative effect on your polymers, rubbers, plastics, paints, coatings, composites, labels, textiles, and other materials. Element provides specialized services to evaluate your materials or products by testing that simulates exposure to ultraviolet light. (read more)

Element's acoustic testing capabilities for different industries
Element provides acoustic testing for large scale projects with a High Level, High-Intensity Acoustic Noise Reverberant Facility which provides sound pressure data to aerospace and defense clients. For construction and manufacturing clients, Element engineers provide acoustic testing in a specially-constructed... (read more)

Element provides Type II non-fluorescent inspection services to all of the various commercial and nuclear codes, as well as Type I fluorescent inspection to aerospace, government, nuclear, and after-market applications. (read more)

Element operates radiographic laboratories around the country, staffed with certified technicians and outfitted with the latest technical and image processing equipment to process, inspect, and certify to the highest standards a wide variety of products for the aerospace, power generation, military, nuclear, and commercial industries. (read more)

Incredibly precise, fast, and economical, ultrasonic examinations can identify and plot discontinuities, such as inclusions and laminations,in a wide variety of wrought and finished metals, as well as composite and plated items. (read more)

Magnetic particle testing, sometimes called mag particle, MPI, or MT, is ideal for identifying surface or near-surface discontinuities in parts and assemblies whose materials have a certain degree of magnetism, such as billets, bars, castings, forgings, fasteners, weldments, brazes, and extrusions. (read more)

Element operates special testing laboratories designed to measure and evaluate the responses of your parts or products to dynamic forces they encounter, including: vibration, acceleration, shock, structural, fatigue, and rotating load simulations. (read more)

Element offers a comprehensive suite of services to help companies comply with these air quality regulations, including accurate sampling, analyzing, and measuring organic compounds, metals, and other toxics in source emissions. Our scientists stay current with industrial and legislative changes to ensure that your compliance program is efficient and up-to-date. (read more)

Element Materials Technology experts are experienced in conducting failure analyses of a wide range of advanced materials, including:

• Plastic failure analysis
• Composite failure analysis
• Rubber failure analysis
• Adhesives and sealants failure analysis
• Paints & coatings failure analysis

At Element Materials Technology, our team of failure analysts conducts in-depth investigations and analyses to determine the root cause of materials, product, part, and assembly failures and identify the means for preventing future problems. Using the latest analytical equipment and materials characterization techniques, Element failure analysts provide clear answers that deliver bottom-... (read more)

Salt spray testing is a test method for evaluating a product or a coating's resistance to corrosion in the face of extended exposure to a saline, or salted, spray.

A cost-effective corrosion testing method, salt spray testing is conducted in a closed salt spray chamber where the sample is subjected to a sodium chloride fog, an extremely corrosive atmosphere. (read more)