Industry

Fastener Testing

Fastener testing is critical to prevent leakage and minimize vibration and shock perturbations.

LTI offers a broad range of fastener testing and dimensional inspection to keep your business operating efficiently. Whether you order testing for raw materials and finished fasteners or research quality issues with production, you will benefit from identifying and correcting weaknesses or defects before costly problems occur.

Fastener Testing Services

Mechanical Testing
  • Hardness Testing
  • Magnetic Permeability
  • Double Shear
  • Yield Strength
  • Wedge & Axial Tensile
  • Proof Load Testing
  • Tension Fatigue Test
  • Cone Strip Test
  • Flattening
  • Creep Testing
  • Stress Rupture Test
  • Hydrogen Embrittlement / Stress Durability
  • Washer Testing
    • Free Height Test
    • Compression
    • Interlocking Test
    • Twist Test for Locking Washers

 

Metallurgical Testing
  • Grain Size
  • Carburization / Decarburization
  • Plating Thickness
  • Surface Contamination
  • Alpha Case
  • Thread Examination
  • Microstructure
  • Macro-etch
  • Grain Flow
  • Microhardness
Chemical Analysis
  • ICP Spectrometry (ICP-AES, ICP-MS)
  • AES Analysis
  • FTIR Analysis
  • Carbon / Sulfur / Nitrogen / Oxygen / Hydrogen Determination
  • Positive Material Identification (PMI)
Nondestructive Testing
  • Magnetic Particle Inspection
  • Liquid Penetrant Testing
  • Ultrasonic Testing
  • X-ray Inspection (Radiography)
Dimensional Inspection
  • Internal threads
  • External threads

Fastener Testing Detects Defects

Fastener testing can ensure the reliability of fasteners used in critical applications. Laboratory Testing Inc. provides all the fastener testing services required to support our clients in making crucial business decisions and resolving problems at our lab in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA (USA).

LTI’s fastener testing services are extensive for all metal fasteners. Our highly trained staff has years of experience in materials engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, testing, and metrology. Our fastener testing services are accredited and performed to industry standards, including ASTM, SAE, ISO, NAS, and NASM.

LTI specializes in testing metals but also offers some services for polymeric materials. LTI’s extensive fastener testing is accredited and performed by our engineers, chemists, and highly experienced technicians according to specification requirements. You’ll get the information you need and receive your Certified Test Report promptly and at a competitive price.

If you are selecting a fastener or a material for fastener production, we can help you evaluate or compare materials to be sure you are buying the most reliable product. Some fastener testing services can assess the quality of finished fasteners and help answer production questions. Our services can also verify that the fasteners you routinely purchase or manufacture continue to meet your requirements.

LTI Is a One-Stop Material Testing Lab

LTI is more than a materials and fastener testing lab. We also provide related services to save you time and simplify your job. Let us prepare any specimens needed for testing or take advantage of the calibration services offered by LTI Metrology to certify the measurement accuracy of your measuring tools, gauges, torque wrenches, masters, furnaces, surface plates, and many other measuring instruments.

Test Methods/Specifications
  • ASTM A370
  • ASTM A962
  • ASTM E112
  • ASTM E340
  • ASTM F2328
  • ASTM F606
  • ASTM F835
  • SAE J429
  • SAE J995
  • ISO 898-1
  • ISO 898-2
  • NAS 1069
  • NASM-1312-1
  • NASM-1312-5
  • NASM-1312-6
  • NASM-1312-8
  • NASM-1312-11
  • NASM-1312-12
  • NASM-1312-13
  • NASM-1312-18
LTI Capabilities
  • 100 to 600,000 lb. testing capacity
  • Various chemical services to analyze, identify, and reveal material composition
  • Verify the corrosion resistance of fastener coatings
  • Identify surface-breaking discontinuities
  • Dimension inspection adhering to NAS, MS, and ANSI specifications
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