Material Testing

Material Testing


Tank Inspections Ltd have specialist "in house" material testing facilities for material testing of thermoplastics; dual laminate composites including fluoroplastics and GRP

Methods of testing to satisfy BS 4994 – 1987; EN 13121; EN12573

Testing includes:
Weld strength of thermoplastic and fluoroplastics
Bend test for thermoplastics and fluoroplastics
Ultimate tensile strength of laminates
Unit tensile modulus of laminates
Inter laminar shear strength of laminates
Lap shear strength of bond between thermoplastic or fluoroplastics inner shell and laminate
Peel strength of bond between laminate layer
Peel strength of bond between thermoplastic or fluoroplastics inner shell and laminate
Barcol harness
Short term creep test on laminate
Glassfibre content in the laminate by weight