Physical and chemical properties of materials
Eurofins Expert Services provides comprehensive test selection for environmental exposure and artificial ageing tests for polymers, coatings and composites. These can be combined with mechanical testing and analysis.
Artificial Ageing and Environmental exposure
The effects of environmental parameters can be tested in the programmable climate chambers.
Studies and analysis
Eurofins Expert Services provides surface studies and analysis for identification of materials and evaluation of degradations after environmental exposure.
Our testing services
- Water absorption
- Abrasive resistance
- Erosion
- Cyclic ageing tests
- Low temperature
- High temperature
- Humidity, water spray, condensate
- Chemical resistance
- UV- and Xenon Arc radiation
- Salt spray, -mist, gases
- Impact
- Scratch
- Mechanical tests in extreme temperatures -150°C…1000°C: static-, dynamic loading, vibration and fatigue
Our services
- Heat Distortion Temperature (HDT) measurements
- The glass transition temperature with Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Chemical composition of the polymer can be determined with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Surface studies with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
- Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) is used for analysing the chemical element composition
- Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
- Determination on heat expansion coefficients and moisture absorption characteristics
- Non-destructive ultrasonic inspection
- Surface profile measurements
- Gloss and colour measurements
