This month, NDT Magazine offers a potential solution for those NDT companies feeling the same uncertainty about the economy and unable to justify capital expenditures in the current climate-NDT rentals.
Lab services can help guard against a product defect is not discovered until well after the part is already on trailers, in transit, on the customer’s floor or in assembled products such as vehicles.
Many products have internal bonded interfaces between materials and the problem for assemblers is determining whether the materials are truly bonded over an adequate area.
Hardness testing has evolved quite dramatically from simple scratch-testing to motorized testers to today’s sophisticated, fully automated, computer-controlled systems.