Test Laboratory Facilities

Corex Honeycomb’s manufacturing site includes Test Laboratory Facilities, our stringent test procedures guarantee the highest level of accuracy for our customers, enabling us to perform tests on aluminium honeycomb structures.

Another division in the Encocam Ltd uses these test laboratory facilities to test Anthropomorphic Test Devices for the car safety industry. The test equipment we have includes a Dynamic Test Jig, Compression Certification Jig, ATD Bone Calibration, ATD Head Drop Table, ATD Impactors and Centre of Gravity Test Jig.

For our Corex Honeycomb customers we can offer the following tests:

Test Standard

Lap ShearASTM D1002-10 – A method for testing adhesion by pulling bonded layers apart along the plane of adhesion.

T-PeelASTM D1876-08 – A good accurate method of assessing the quality of a joint but is only applicable for flexible test pieces, for example aluminium foil. An example would be the force it takes to pull tape off a roll.

Climbing DrumASTM D1781-98 – A peel test but designed to understand the bond between a surface, or ‘skin’ and a sub-straight. In our case we usually test the bond between honeycomb aluminium and an aluminium skin.

Flatwise Tensile ASTM C297/C296M-16 – Test specimens are cut from sandwich panels, and the faces of these specimens are bonded to aluminium blocks. The aluminium blocks are mounted in a universal test machine and pulled apart. This force, along with the area of the specimen is used to establish the bond strength.

We use a Universal Test Machine (Inston or LLoyds machine) for each of the above tests. The samples are pulled apart at a pre-determined rate (mm per min), the force required to do this is continuously measured and recorded. This information is used to assess the strength of the bond.

Please get in touch to discuss your requirements and to find out more about our test laboratory facilities.