Material analysis is an essential tool in identifying materials, assessing if they meet specification and determining their properties to understand how they will react to a given environment.

Impact Solutions can perform a full suite of material analysis and characterisation, investigating everything from rheological and structural properties to flow behaviour and chemical composition.

Material analysis techniques are often used by Impact Solutions to carry out failure analysis. FTIR, DSC, optical and scanning electron microscopy can check the mode of failure, crack propagation and characterise chemicals or contaminants present.

A product’s aesthetic properties and durability can also be assessed through material analysis with techniques like haze, colour, tear and abrasion resistance.