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Materials Testing

Shiva's material testing services can assist client's with selecting and verifying materials, trouble-shooting production problems, investigating product failures, and meeting regulatory requirements such as RoHS and REACH.

Materials testing is required to ensure that industrial products and their component parts can perform according to their intended use and endure their expected performance period.

Shiva's materials testing laboratory in Bangalore, India, can provide answers for stakeholders to make prudent business decisions about their products and processes. We offer a broad range of material testing services including compositional and chemical analysis (from percentage level to ppb levels), metallurgical testing, corrosion testing, and RoHS3 testing.

Material testing typically involves destructive methods of testing, however SHIVA also performs some types of non-destructive testing to provide information and answers when materials and products cannot be damaged.

We are equipped and accredited to test and analyze a wide-range of specimens and products for many applications and industries. Our materials testing procedures conform to ASTM, BIS, DIN and other national and international standards. Our laboratory having been approved by US Consumer Product Safety Council can take up toy testing as per CPSIA recommended methods.

Our services include:

  • Material composition and identification: Compositional and trace level analysis
  • Evaluation of microscopic product features
  • Detection of flaws and discontinuities
  • Susceptibility to corrosion
  • Thermal properties of polymers such as Tm and Tg
  • RoHS3 and REACH testing

Chemical Analysis
Chemical analysis services include qualitative and quantitative analyses performed by instrumental and classical wet chemistry methods to determine material composition and elemental content, including trace elements. Shiva's lab focuses on metals, plastics, rubbers, ores, ferroalloys, composites and ceramics. SHIVA's Chemical analysis lab also provides restricted substances (RoHS3 and REACH) testing apart from SEM, XRD analysis and Elemental analysis on Leco analysers.

Corrosion Testing
Corrosion testing is performed in accordance with ASTM practices to help you select materials, treatments and manufacturing processes and determine the impact of environmental conditions on their products

Metallurgical Testing
Metallurgical testing includes micro hardness testing and macroscopic examinations to evaluate surface and internal features, defects and material characteristics.

Polymer, Plastic and Resin Testing
Our capabilities include polymer identification using ATR-FTIR, DSC, TGA estimation of volatile organics, residual monomers etc. using GCMS /LCMSMS techniques.

 

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Certifications & Accreditations

Shiva Analyticals is an ISO 9001 certified and ISO 17025 accredited analytical laboratory based in Bangalore, India, to provide testing services for a wide range of food, agricultural, pharmaceutical, mineral and petroleum products.

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