Destructive Testing
Destructive Testing for Material and Process Validation
Fathom offers destructive testing services to help verify the strength, durability, and performance of materials and components produced across our manufacturing technologies. By testing to failure, we provide valuable data that informs design improvements, material selection, and process control — ensuring that every part meets or exceeds performance expectations.
Common tests include:
- Tensile testing
- Material and weld integrity testing
- Hardness and impact testing
- Fatigue testing
These tests provide valuable data for product development, material certification, and ensuring parts meet safety and design specifications.
Destructive Testing Capabilities
Quantifying performance through controlled failure analysis
Fathom offers destructive testing services that validate the safety and durability of the components we manufacture. Often, parts must be tested to standards that our customers specify.
Tensile Strength
A process that pulls a material sample until it breaks to measure its ability to withstand tension. It provides critical data like ultimate tensile strength, yield strength and ductility.
Fatigue Testing
Fatigue testing is a process of subjecting manufactured parts to repeated tensile, compression or rotational forces to determine how many stress cycles they can withstand before failure.
Hardness Testing
This quality control method measures a material’s resistance to deformation, scratching, or abrasion. It involves pressing an indenter into the material’s surface with a controlled force and determining a hardness value.
Microstructural Evaluation
This type of test analyzes cross-sections of a part to verify weld penetration, bonding and material homogeneity.
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