SMA can meet any customer’s requirement with respect to process, final quality, and contract testing/analysis. Following is a list of the SMA core analytical services, with custom analyses regularly developed upon request.

Mechanical Properties

• Tensile testing
• Fatigue testing
• RBT (rotating beam testing)
• 3-Point bend testing
• 4-Point bend testing

Physical Properties

• Chemical analysis
• Compositional analysis
• Metallographic analysis
• Inclusion analysis
• XRD (X-ray diffraction)

Transformation Temperature

• DSC (differential scanning calorimetry)
• BFR(bend and free recovery)
• CLD (constant load dilatometry

Microscopy

• Digital light microscopy
• SEM (scanning electron microscopy)
• EDS (energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy)
• Automated precision measurement

Other

• Corrosion evaluation
• Biocompatibility
• Surface analysis and surface roughness
• Mechanical and functional testing
• Failure analysis
• Customized test set-ups for measuring specific functional properties or operational stability