Mining & Metals

Many of the high-tech industries, such as aerospace, automobile manufacturing, electronics, and medical production, and even the more traditional ones, such as construction, energy, and heavy machinery, are based upon metals. The metal products and component manufacturers should always ensure that the materials used are of the required strength, durability, and performance standards.

The knowledge of the behavior of all metals at all phases, such as prior to processing, during processing, and in the final product, is a key to both design check and control of the process. Mechanical testing, especially through the application of tensile, compressive, and shear forces up to failure, has been found to be a sound way of defining material behavior and future in-service performance.

Metal is manufactured in an extensive variety of forms, each demanding the use of standardized tests in order to maintain conformity. The widely used types of products are hot- and cold-rolled strips, fine sheets and foil, rods and bars, wires and cables, pipes, castings, forgings, and fasteners. The determination of these materials is usually done through known mechanical tests—tensile, compression, shear, and flexural bend—in compliance with the ASTM, ISO, EN, and other industry standards.

The force, torque, and materials testing equipment of Presto Stantest are extensively used throughout the metals industry and used to provide correct, repeatable, and standards-compliant quality control in both testing and manufacturing.

• Tensile strength of
  • Copper metal rod
  • Steel fibre for friction materials (e.g., brakes)
  • Galvanised wire
  • Steel and aluminium pipes
  • Fabricated metal assemblies
  • Fasteners
  • Welded joints
  • Wiring looms and harnesses
  • Aluminium composite panels (climbing drum peel test) 
• compressive strength of
  • Axially-pressed sintered metal products
  • Compacted metal powders ('Green Strength density test')
  • Stamped parts ('press-out test')  
  • Stainless steel bolts ('push-out test')
  • pipes