Hardness Test

Hardness Testing is a commonly applied mechanical test. Hardness is a characteristic of a material and not a fundamental property, it is generally defined as a measure of a materials resistance to deformation and provides information with regard to its strength, flexibility and durability.

Principally the importance of hardness testing has to do with the relationship between hardness and other properties of a material.

As a field application hardness testing can provide leading information with regard to parent material, welding consumables and the effectiveness of applied heat treatment process(s).

Material Analysis

Positive Material Identification (PMI) is the analysis of a metallic alloy to establish composition by reading the quantities by percentage of its constituent elements, and are typically used to analyse both parent and weld materials.

Integrity NDT provide both PMI optical emission spectrometry (OES) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) application services.