Engineering Lab: Testing Services
NSF’s engineering labs evaluate products and materials for material properties, performance and safety of the finished product. Specific testing services include:
Evaluation Services
- Testing to highly-credible standards
- Test method development
- Protocol development
- Witness testing at client facility
- Failure analysis
- Quality control procedures
- Consulting
Material and Product Testing
- Low and high temperature performance
- Performance and failure analysis
- Structural integrity (packaging, etc.)
- Tensile/compressive/flexural properties
- Abrasion, corrosion and wear
- UV and chlorine resistance
- Hydraulic pressure, i.e. cyclic, burst, long-term sustained
- Failure analysis
- Material comparisons by type/supplier
- Fatigue
- Creep
- Izod and charpy impact
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Chemical extraction
- Surface and interfacial tension
- Surface roughness
- Corrosion resistance
- Coatings abrasion and wear resistance
- Viscosity
- High heat distortion
- Low temperature brittleness
- Cleanability
- Composition
- Extensive polymer capabilities
- Electrical and electrical safety
- Recycled PET (rPET)
Flammability Tests
- Testing to ASTM E84 and ULC S102.2 for material burning characteristics
Electrical Tests
- Testing to UL and CSA standards for food equipment, swimming pools and spas
- Conduit testing
Hydraulic Pressure Tests
- Sustained long-term high pressure control (pipes and fittings)
- Flows up to 1,500 gpm
- Plumbing up to 36" in diameter
- Pressure testing up to 3,000 psi
- Temperatures from 20° C to120° C
- Cyclic pressure
- Thermal cycling
- Burst testing
For more information about NSF’s engineering labs, please contact us.
