LONDON, UK – December 13, 2021 – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½) has bolstered its service offering with Plastometrex’s novel metal testing system - the Indentation Plastometer. ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is using the technology to offer failure analysis and complex-part-testing services to its large and diverse customer base.
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is a global leader in testing, inspection and certification services. The mechanical testing of metallic materials forms an important part of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s business and the company offers a full suite of mechanical testing services to clients in the aerospace, automotive, construction, and energy markets, amongst others. In order to extend the company’s capability in this critical space, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ recently integrated Plastometrex’s novel mechanical testing technology - the Indentation Plastometer - into its core service offering.
Born out of a decade’s worth of published research from The University of Cambridge, Plastometrex’s technology utilises a new testing method (called PIP), that combines bespoke testing hardware with advanced numerical methods and optimisation algorithms. The PIP method can extract gold-standard mechanical property data (stress-strain curves) from an automated indentation test in under 3 minutes, without the need to machine standard tensile testing coupons. The technology can also test very small samples sizes, enabling users to generate data on samples that they couldn’t otherwise test.
Dr. Manfred Feyer, General Manager at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s Hamburg laboratory, said: “The Indentation Plastometer enables us to offer an entirely new method for determining the strength of metallic materials and metallic components. This technology has a number of attributes that will allow us to offer new material insights into the properties of difficult-to-test parts, while also supporting failure analysis investigations across a wide range of industries.”
The integration of Plastometrex’s technology into ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s service business has helped to strengthen the ties between the two companies, following ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s investment into Plastometrex in July 2020.
Dr. James Dean, CEO of Plastometrex had this to say about the relationship: “ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ continues to be a strong and supportive partner of Plastometrex and our technologies, and we are delighted to be working with them first as an investor and now as a customer. We will be supporting the team at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ by helping them to deploy our technology in ways that bring value to its diverse customer base.”
To learn more about Plastometrex’s mechanical testing technologies take a look through the company’s knowledge centre .
About ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Group is one of the world’s leading global providers of testing, inspection and certification services for a diverse range of products, materials and technologies in advanced industrial supply chains where failure in use is not an option. Headquartered in London, UK, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s c 7,000 scientists, engineers and technologists, working in our global network of over 200 laboratories, support customers from early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production ensuring their products are safe, sustainable and achieve market access.
In 2021, Element set out its new, industry leading environmental commitments, adopting science-based targets and committing to net zero emissions across its entire global business by 2035. These environmental commitments follow ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½’s achievement of the highest ESG ranking in the testing, inspection and certification industry from Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG research and data.
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