Our US-based materials testing laboratories, Applus+ DatapointLabs, helps companies build enduring data collections that accurately represent the materials used in their products.
- Gain from our deep expertise and experience in materials for simulation and comprehensive knowledge of materials: plastics, metals, rubber, foam, composites, adhesives.
- Get results fast: standard turnaround in 5 business days for most tests with 48-hour priority delivery available.
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- Material properties data, CAE Material files, and test reports are delivered digitally to your Matereality® database, making the transition from materials testing to product design easy and error-free.
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- Testing of adhesives, ceramics, composites, foams, food, metals, papers, plastics, and rubbers.
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Online Materials Testing Catalog
Scope of Testing in our On-line Catalog
Mechanical Properties
- Stress-strain curves — tensile, compressive, flexural, volumetric, shear (elevated and sub-ambient temperatures)
- Modulus — tensile, compressive, shear, flexural, bulk
- Poisson’s ratio — tensile or compressive
- High strain rate properties — up to 1000/s
- Hyperelastic and hyperfoam properties
- Creep and creep rupture — tensile, compressive, flexural (elevated and humidified environments)
- Fatigue — tensile, flexural
- Impact — Izod, Charpy, Dynatup
- Volumetric properties — compressibility, bulk modulus
- Viscoelastic properties — torsion, tensile, compressive, flexural
- Stress relaxation — torsion, tensile, compressive
- Friction, wear and hardness
- Environmental exposure — heat and chemical aging
- Forming limit diagrams
Thermal Properties
- Thermal expansion — linear and volumetric
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity
- Thermogravimetric analysis
- Specific heat
- Transitions — melting, solidification, crystallization kinetics
- Heat deflection temperature
- PVT – isothermal and isobaric methods, very high pressure PVT
Rheological Properties
- Capillary viscosity, juncture losses, slip, die swell
- Viscoelastic properties, dynamic and steady shear
- Rheotens melt tension measurements
- Extensional viscosity — lubricated squeezing
- Melt flow rate