- Physical-Mechanical Testing
- Physical-Mechanical Testing of Products
- Physical-Mechanical Testing of Materials
- Custom Mixing, milling, & molding
- Unvulcanized Rubber
- Properties in Tension & Compression at Various Temperatures
- Flex & Fatigue
- Abrasion Resistance
- Cold Temperature Properties
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
- Environmental conditioning & exposure
- Adhesion
- Hardness & Density
- Coefficient of Friction
- Cut & Chip Resistance
- Additional Plastics Testing
- Reference Materials
- Composites Testing
- Chemical-Analytical
- Technology Consulting
- Processing & Development
- Information Services
Environmental Impacts Analysis
A variety of markets are imposing ever increasing product qualification requirements, ensuring that products used are fully compatible with the changing environments in which they operate.
Among the wide range of testing and consulting services available from Smithers Rapra, we have the capacity to provide fluid susceptibility testing and environmental testing to a number of recognized standards or to customer specific parameters. Our test equipment has been developed and proven on-site and is flexible to satisfy demanding testing criteria.
Examples of standards we currently test to are:
• SAE 343
• SAE J1405
• ASTM D2240
• ASTM D624
• ASTM E96
• ASTM D471
• ASTM D412
We have available an extensive range of environments
Including but not limited to:
• Hydraulic
• Brake, and transmission fluids
• Anti-freeze
• Gas
• Avgas
• E10 and E85
• heat
• oxygen
• ozone
• UV light
• salt corrosion
• organic oils and solvents
• inorganic fluids