Businesses attach importance to physical and mechanical testing of their products in order to prove the quality, durability and safety of their products to their customers and at the same time to reduce the risk of product returns or product recalls. Physical and mechanical tests are carried out on the safety, stability and durability of products in a wide range of areas including consumer products, retail products and automotive.

In general, physical and mechanical product tests include stability tests, strength tests and endurance tests. These tests can be performed separately, as well as possible mechanical tests of products such as deformation, adhesion, tensile, impact and bending. All tests can be performed at any stage of the production process, from the quality tests of the raw materials used to the quality of the finished products.

Essentially, the physical tests of materials include density, magnetic property, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, specific heat and thermal expansion tests. Mechanical tests include hardness, tensile, compression, fatigue, impact and abrasion tests.

For example, tensile and compression tests between mechanical tests are performed to determine the mechanical properties of materials under static load. Tensile, compression and bending tests of materials are performed by using special test equipment.

A few standards considered in mechanical testing of materials are:

• TS EN ISO 527-1 Plastics - Determination of tensile properties - Part 1: General principles
• TS EN ISO 527-2 Plastics - Determination of tensile properties - Part 2: Test conditions for molding and extrusion plastics
• TS EN ISO 1798 Polymeric materials - Flexible - Porous - Determination of tensile strength and elongation at break
• TS EN ISO 868 Plastics and ebonite - Determination of penetration hardness by durometer (shore hardness)
• TS EN ISO 179-2 Plastics - Determination of Charpy impact properties - Part 2: Instrument impact test
• TS EN ISO 180 Plastics - Determination of Izod impact strength

One of the fields of activity of the organizations that provide control and inspection services is mechanical and physical tests. Our company also under the supervision services, mechanical and physical tests. In these studies, the relevant legal regulations and standards published by domestic and foreign organizations are complied with. In addition, our company, the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TÜRKAK), Accredited according to TS EN ISO / IEC 17025 standard.