Materials Performance Testing

Center for Advanced Materials Performance (CAMP)

Materials Performance Testing is performed to understand corrosion and materials degradation resistance of a variety of materials. Our wide range of testing equipment allows CAMP researchers to accelerate corrosion processes while testing a material’s mechanical properties and its performance in high-temperature environments.

Accelerated Testing

• Expose coated and uncoated panels to aggressive environments to analyze corrosion resistance
• Accelerate damage and predict the material’s performance
• Material degradation/corrosion processes are accelerated significantly under extreme environmental conditions
• Tests simulate effects of sunlight, dew, and rain, generating weathering data in a few weeks or months
• Performance of metals, polymers, and coatings for damage including color change, gloss loss, chalking, cracking, crazing, hazing, blistering, embrittlement, strength loss and oxidation

Mechanical Testing

• Evaluate electrochemical, physical, and mechanical properties of coatings
• Qualification of hardness of films and coatings of materials varying from polymers to metals
• Determination of coating adhesion to substrate through nano-scratch testing
• Determination of coating failure mechanisms
• Highly localized determination of dynamic mechanical properties
• New techniques for testing reliability of commercial alloys
• Fatigue crack growth, high-cycle fatigue, low-cycle fatigue, fracture toughness, tension, and compression

High Temperature Testing

• Simulate operating stresses experienced in a pressurized water reactor system that is completely computerized
• High-temperature, high-velocity (up to Mach 2) burner rig testing with capability for sand ingestion
• Stressed oxidation testing under high-velocity, high-water-content atmosphere up to 1450°C
• Thermal-barrier-coated (TBC) superalloy system and ceramic matrix composite evaluation
• Understand influence of temperature on structure of metal
• Continuous measurement of oxidation kinetics as well as a change in metal structure
• Heat treatments of materials in a wide range of atmospheres and temperatures

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