Applied Technical Services offers a broad range of tensile testing capabilities. Our mechanical testing division employs various methods and equipment to determine the tensile properties of product design materials as required in their product specifications.
Our Tensile Testing Capabilities
The ATS Tensile Testing Lab performs methods to their relevant standards — measuring the test material’s various tensile properties and determining whether these performance traits are appropriate for the product’s intended use by consulting its design specifications. Depending on the client’s needs, our tensile testing process may report measurements for any or all of the following: tensile strength, yield strength, percent elongation, and reduction of area.
Equipment Specifications
- Mechanical Testing Lab — Maximum force capacity is 400,000 lbs. Maximum elevated temperature up to 1800°F
- Polymers Testing Lab — Maximum force capacity is 10,000 lbs. Reduced and elevated temperatures ranging from -70 °C to 250°C (-19°F to 482°F).
- The Tensile Testing Lab — Uniaxial Machines
Our technicians regularly perform tensile testing for our clients. The test materials that they most often receive for analysis include:
- Metals
- Fasteners
- Rebar
- Metal Wire
- Pipes
- Plastics
- Rubber
- Composites
- Tubes
- Welds
Popular Test Standards
ATS conducts tensile testing to the following list of standards. We are ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (A2LA) accredited to perform this method according to specific standards as noted below:
- ASTM A370 — Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
- A2LA Accredited
- ASTM B557 — Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing Wrought and Cast Aluminum- and Magnesium-Alloy Products
- A2LA Accredited
- ASTM C633 — Standard Test Method for Adhesion or Cohesion Strength of Thermal Spray Coatings
- ASTM C297/C297M — Standard Test Method for Flatwise Tensile Strength of Sandwich Constructions
- ASTM D3039/D3039M — Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials
- ASTM D412 — Standard Test Methods for Vulcanized Rubber and Thermoplastic Elastomers-Tension
- A2LA Accredited
- ASTM D5766 — Standard Test Methods for Vulcanized Rubber and Thermoplastic Elastomers-Tension
- ASTM D638 — Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics
- A2LA Accredited
- ASTM D6742/D6742M — Standard Practice for Filled Hole Tension and Compression Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Laminates
- ASTM D882 — Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Thin Plastic Sheeting
- ASTM E8/E8M — Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials
- A2LA Accredited
- ASTM E21 — Standard Test Methods for Elevated Temperature Tension Tests of Metallic Materials
- ASTM E345 — Standard Test Methods of Tension Testing of Metallic Foil
- ASTM F606/F606M — Standard Test Methods for Determining the Mechanical Properties of Externally and Internally Threaded Fasteners, Washers, Direct Tension Indicators and Rivets
- ASTM F1147 — Standard Test Method for Tension Testing of Calcium Phosphate and Metallic Coating
- EN 10002-1 — Testing of Metallic Material. Method of Testing at Ambient Temperature
- ISO 527 — Plastics — Determination of Tensile Properties
- A2LA Accredited
- ISO 6892-1 — Metallic Materials — Tensile Testing — Part 1: Room Temperature
- A2LA Accredited
- ISO 6892-2 — Metallic Materials — Tensile Testing — Part 2: Elevated Temperature
- A2LA Accredited
- ISO 37 — Rubber, Vulcanized or Thermoplastic — Determination of Tensile Stress-Strain Properties
- JIS Z 2201 — Japanese Standard for Tensile Test for Metallic Materials
- JIS Z 2241 — Japanese Standard for Tensile Test for Metallic Materials at Room Temperature
- MIL-STD-1312-8 — Fastener Pull-Through Strength Test Method
- NASM 1312-8 — Fastener Test Methods, Tensile Strength
- SAE J429 — Automotive Standard for Tensile Strength in Fasteners
- A2LA Accredited
- SAE J995 — Automotive Standard for Tensile Strength in Nuts and Bolts
