Polymeric Materials Testing

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Altran Solutions provides a range of engineering consulting and analytical services to polymeric product fabricators and end-users. Altran works with clients to improve products and/or enhance production.

Commercial fabricators often require technical support for their engineering and manufacturing work due to the diversity of materials required by the design concept. The increasingly aggressive application requirements, faster manufacturing demands, and more accurate part geometry exigencies, often require a deeper and more up-to-date polymer expertise.

Altran, with its staff of polymer engineers, and the support of metallurgical, polymer, mechanical, biomedical, and microbiology experts, is uniquely positioned to support the development need of a variety of product categories.

Services

  • Physical Testing
    • Stress-Strain (ASTM molded samples, composites, fabrics, etc.)
    • Tear (ASTM molded samples, composites, fabrics, etc.)
    • Adhesion
    • Flex-Fatigue
    • Sealing Force Decay of O-rings
    • Compression Set
    • Aging (fluid, heat, UV, etc.)
    • Fabrics flammability
  • Service Life Evaluation
  • Analytical Evaluation
    • Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
    • SEM
    • Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (ICP/AA)
    • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
    • Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS)
  • Product Development
  • Process Development
  • Microbiology Testing