Years of testing experience, T3M provides comprehensive testing solutions across critical industries, including automotive, aerospace, construction, defense, and energy engineering, confirming the customer’s materials and products are safe and sustainable for the end user.

Metallurgical Testing Services and Capabilities

Our advanced metallurgical testing services investigate metals both surface and sub-surface. Some of the metallurgical testing methods are listed below, but are not limited to:

• Alloy depletion
• Alpha case evaluation
• Austenite measurements
• Carburization/depth of decarburization
• Case depth
• Casting evaluation
• Ferrite measurements
• Fractography
• Grain size measurements
• Inclusion content
• Intergranular corrosion
• Jominy testing
• Macroscopic evaluation
• Microstructure evaluation
• Particle analysis
• Passivation
• Photomicrography
• Pitting and crevice corrosion
• Plating and coating thickness
• Recast evaluation
• Replication metallography
• Metallographic preparation
• Scanning Electron Microscopy / Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (SEM/EDS)
• Inclusion analysis

Fastener, screw, and bolt testing services

Mechanical Testing

Hardness Testing Services: T3M’s Hardness testing services and capabilities listed below:

• Brinell hardness test
• Rockwell hardness test
• Vickers hardness test
• Knoop hardness test
• Hot hardness test
• Shore hardness test
• Leeb hardness test
• VST hardness tests
• Microhardness testing

Fatigue Testing Services: Types of fatigue testing we provide:

• High cycle fatigue (HCF) testing 
• Low cycle fatigue (LCF) testing 
• Thermo mechanical fatigue (TMF) testing
• Axial fatigue testing
• Torsional fatigue testing
• Bending fatigue testing
• Strain Control
• Stress Control
• Displacement Control

Tension, compression, shear, and torsional loading. 

Tensile testing capabilities:

• Axial tensile testing
• Cryogenic testing
• Digital image correlation
• Ductility testing
• Elevated, reduced, or ambient Temperature
• Elongation testing
• Fastener testing
• Open hole compression & tensile testing of composites
• Ring testing
• Room temperature tensile
• Slow strain rate tensile testing
• Tensile adhesion strength
• Tensile resistance
• Tensile testing of porous coatings
• True stress and strain measurements

Corrosion & Wear testing

• Medical device wear & pin-on-disk wear
• Accelerated Corrosion Testing (ACT) 
• Assessing materials for resistance to crack propagation 
• ASTM G48 pitting and crevice corrosion testing
• Corrosion failure analysis 
• Corrosion fatigue 
• Corrosion testing and evaluations 
• Dezincification resistance test in accordance with ISO 6509
• Electrochemical corrosion testing
• Galvanic corrosion testing
• Intergranular corrosion testing
• SCC stress corrosion cracking test

Other Services

• Residual Stress Measurement Services
• Phase analysis using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Texture analysis using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Heat treatment of alloys
• Additive manufacturing & 3D Printing testing services
• Processes optimization
  • Strain Gaging
  • XRD
• Phase analysis using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Texture analysis using X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• Heat treatment of alloys
• Additive manufacturing & 3D Printing testing services
• Processes optimization
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Six Sigma