Services

Element Hitchin/MERL offers a range of independent services and consultancy with a multi-disciplinary team of highly qualified and experienced staff.

• Specialist knowledge of non-metallic and related materials
• Complete or partial product development programmes
• Materials testing: static, creep, stress relaxation, fatigue, friction and wear
• Mechanical testing of components and structures with instrumented multi- loading
• Finite element analysis, stress analysis
• Failure and design analysis
• Chemical fluid resistance tests and durability assessment in hostile environments
• Independent inspection, consultancy and expert witnessing
• Materials development and selection
• Rubber compounding and recipe development
• Small scale mixing and prototype rubber component manufacture
• Design & manufacture of specialist bespoke test equipment
• Instrumentation development for machine and data acquisition using Labview®
• Tailored polymer training courses