Corrosion and ageing testing laboratory

Donostia-San Sebastián 1 Location
Azpeitia Location

The main equipment in this laboratory consists of:

• Climatic chambers: temperature and humidity chambers, thermal shock chambers, ultraviolet ageing chambers, fluorescent (QUV) chambers, chambers with xenon arc lamps, salt spray chambers, humidity chambers, Kesternich chambers, etc.
• Equipment for physical tests: viscometers, glossmeter, colourimeter, pycnometer, goniometer, thickness gauge, particle size gauge, sieves, impact meter…
• Tensile machines for the SSRT technique.
• Dynamometric rings for stress-corrosion tests.
• Autoclaves for high pressure and temperature testing.
• Mechanical test bench: universal testing machine and structural dynamometer, impact meter, abrasion meter…
• Equipment for analytical techniques (FTIR, FTIR – ATR, Micro-ATR; GC, HPLC-MS, DSC, U-IS, TGA…).

This laboratory’s main services are:

• Assessment of protection against corrosion and accelerated ageing (resistance, temperature, humidity, UV radiation…).
• Characterisation and monitoring of the properties of coatings according to type and ageing time.
• Fault analysis.
• Selection of materials according to requirements.
• Verification of compliance with EN, ISO, UNE, DIN, NF, BS, ASTM, etc. standards
• Technical inspections.
• Technical assessment.