Destructive Testing (DT)

Destructive Testing (DT) is a group of methods in which specimens from metallic materials and welded joints are tested to determine properties such as mechanical strength, ductility, hardness, chemical composition and microstructure. The specimen is deformed, fractured or sectioned, allowing the true behaviour of the material to be measured directly.

In the TÜV AUSTRIA SILA KALİTE laboratory, tensile, guided bend, notch impact, hardness and microhardness, macro and micro analysis, chemical analysis with optical emission spectrometer, through-thickness (Z), fracture, flattening, surface roughness, corrosion tests, peel-chisel-shear-pillow tests for resistance and projection welds, and metallographic replica inspection are carried out using INSTRON tensile-compression and impact machines, a QNESS Vickers hardness tester, a FOUNDRY MASTER XPERT spectrometer and XJM/XTL series microscopes.