Partek Laboratories is proud to offer some of the highest capacity and most technologically advanced equipment along the Gulf Coast to determine the mechanical properties of all materials, including parent metals and welds. Deepwater/subsea fabrication companies and clients from other marine, pipeline, and nuclear energy industries rely on Partek’s expert metallurgists to certify that materials and welding procedures satisfy the requirements of harsh operating environments and demanding work conditions. All testing is conducted to customer specifications and/or national codes. Partek also offers portable equipment to perform hardness testing at a client’s facility or job site.
Facility Features and Equipment:
- Fully equipped machine shop to produce precision test specimens
- Advanced laboratory includes:
- 337,500-lb. Tensile/Compression Tester
- 550 ft-lb. motorized Pendulum Impact Testing System
- Optical Emission Spectrometer
- Optical Microscopes
- Metallurgical Microscope/Etchant
- Fully Automated Hardness Tester
Capabilities:
- Compression Testing
- Bond Testing
- Charpy Impact Testing
- Drop Weight Testing
- Hardness Testing
- Tensile Testing – Yield Strength, Ultimate Tensile, Elongation
Metallurgical Capabilities
- Failure root cause analysis
- Sample preparation
- Mount/polished cross sections
- Digital imaging
- High magnification by SEM
- Macroscopic examination
- Fracture mode and mechanism
- Stereo microscopy
- Macro etched specimens
- Micro hardness impression
