ITC assures that your materials and products meet internationally recognized standards.
- Evidence that your product will meet its requirements
- Verification that a material meets specifications
- The potential life span of a component
- Strength of assembled components
- Weld qualification
- Temperature/humidity environmental testing
- UV testing
SCC Accreditation
- Accredited in 1984 — longer than any other laboratory in Western Canada
- Meets the requirements of ISO 9001, TS 16949, and ISO/IEC 17025
- Internationally recognized through agreements with:
- NIST/NVLAP
- APLAC
Our Services
- Precise strength or proof load results up to 300,000 lbf (1334 kN) in tension and compression
- Cyclic fatigue testing at rates up to 1.5 million cycles per day
- Recreate environmental conditions using chambers with wide temperature, humidity, and UV
- Material hardness and case depth to Brinell, Rockwell, Vickers, and Shore
- Impact energy absorption with Charpy impact
- Machine specimens or fixtures in our fully equipped machine shop
- Chemical analysis – carbon steel, stainless steel, cast iron (accreditation in process)
- Provide consultation on custom test procedure development
- Following industry standards, such as:
- ASTM
- ASME
- CSA
- SAE
Accredited Specialty Areas
- Tension testing in metals, including ferrous and non-ferrous alloys
- Weld testing in steel and aluminum
- Hardness testing of metals, including microindentation (non-destructive) hardness testing
- Impact testing of metals
Equipment
ITC has specialized equipment and software for material testing.
- MTS 880 Servo-hydraulic Universal Test Machine 55 Kip ( 244 kN) capacity
- MTS Landmark Servo-hydraulic Universal Test Machine 22 Kip ( 99 kN) capacity
- With MTS conventional extensometers, MTS video extensometers, and strain modules
- UTS Universal Test Machine 600 kN (135 Kip) capacity
- RK Machinery Universal Test Machine 300 Kip (1,335 kN) capacity
- Tinius Olsen Charpy Impact tester and cooling baths
- Q-Sun UV test chamber
- CSZ 16 and CSZ 32 environmental test chambers (-73C to 150C and 5% to 95% RH range)
- Walk in environmental test chamber (-40C to 60C capacity)
- Uinited Tru-Blue II Rockwell Hardness tester (Rockwell B, C, A, D, E, F, G, H, and K hardness)
- Leitz micro Hardness (Knoop and Vickers hardness test)
- King Brinell Hardness tester.
- A range of polishing and etching preparation equipment including Nikon microscopes with electronic imaging.
- HAAS CNC mill, HAAS CNC Lathe as well as conventional mill, Lathe, saws, welders and other metal fabrication tools for sample and fixture preparation
- Bruker Q4 TASMAN Advanced CCD Based Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES)